The Windows 7 forum may have answers too:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/...tegory/w7itpro
"Sardine" <> wrote in message
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> My installed W7 has its active booting partition be a small 100 MB
> partition that has no drive letter assigned, it is called "reserved". I'm
> told that if I had installed to a formatted drive, this small partition
> would not exist.
>
> I'd like to get rid of it and have W7 boot right to the C: system
> partition.
>
> In doing some fiddling with ShadowProtect Inage Backup I managed to
> eliminate the small partition and now I boot just fine to C: and my "F8"
> function on booting still works fine.
>
> Am I in a "bad" situation or is this acceptable to keep this way?
>
> Fungus