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Why does Windows7 create two partitions?

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I installed Windows7 Ultimate from scratch, and it warns that it might create a 100MB partition before creating a second one where the real stuff lives. This makes imaging more complicated. Does someone know why Windows7 needs two partitions, and whether it's possible to have a single partition? I'…

Error Output

# fdisk -lu

Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders, total 625142448 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 *…

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Fix for: Why does Windows7 create two partitions?

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The 100MiB partition is your system partition. Your so-called "real stuff" volume is called the boot volume in Microsoft parlance. Microsoft puts Microsoft Boot Manager, the BCD database, and a few other things into the system partition. These, too,…

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