Help with Unknown System Volume in Windows 7

[jmm5351]

Hello everyone,

I am not really having any problems but I never seen this before once. When I go to disk defragmenter in Windows 7, there is an unknown volume that shows up there. The weird thing is that the volume does not show up in Computer Management under Storage/Disk Management. I attached a picture that shows the unknown volume highlighted in blue and also shows the volume does not exist in Disk Management. If anyone has an explanation for this or can help me get rid of the unknown volume, that would be great. It is sort of bugging me lol. Thanks in advance

[IFMU]

it's nothing unusual, it is something to do with win7. it sets it when you install windows and is there. honestly i don't know what it's for, but it's been in there every time i install 7 onto a pc.

[zanzabar]

thats were the boot loader goes, its so u can encrypt the whole partition but that is unencrypted so the boot loader can that then get to the windows boot in the partition since the loader in the 100MB can pull the key from your TPM chip and u can use the encrypted drive.


also work on your SSing u could have done it so u could have cropped like half the screen off

[jmm5351]

thats were the boot loader goes, its so u can encrypt the whole partition but that is unencrypted so the boot loader can that then get to the windows boot in the partition since the loader in the 100MB can pull the key from your TPM chip and u can use the encrypted drive.


also work on your SSing u could have done it so u could have cropped like half the screen off

Is there any way I can hide it or something. Sometimes when I install Windows 7 that volume is never there, but other times I install Windows it shows it.

And what do you mean by work on my SSing that I could have done it so I could have cropped like half the screen off. What do you mean ?

[[XC] Oj101]

If you let Windows setup partition the drive it'll go there, if you manually specify the partition size to the maximum size of the drive or partition the drive in another machine you won't get the 100MB partition.

What zanzabar meant is you should work on your screenshots, you could've gotten all the important bits in an image half the size. Large images mean horizontal scrolling, and nobody likes that

[jmm5351]

If you let Windows setup partition the drive it'll go there, if you manually specify the partition size to the maximum size of the drive or partition the drive in another machine you won't get the 100MB partition.

What zanzabar meant is you should work on your screenshots, you could've gotten all the important bits in an image half the size. Large images mean horizontal scrolling, and nobody likes that

I know posted this a while ago but my other SSD failed on me so I just got a new one in today and I re-installed Windows 7 and I did manually specify the partition size and it still shows that weird volume.

Sorry I did not think it was think big of a deal that people had to scroll over to see the picture. I have a 30" monitor so its not a big deal to me but I guess I can see how other people would not like that even though it is easy to move your mouse to scroll over. It was just easier to take a window snap shot because all I had to do was click on the window. But then again if I would have cropped it instead of a window snap shot then somebody would have been saying "we need to see all the information take a snap shot of the whole window". Either way somebody would not have liked it. But thanks for clarifying.

[[XC] Oj101]

Um, no. All you had to do was position everything that you could get all the info in a smaller area, like this:





You see, it's more than just the picture. We now have to scroll for every line of text as the entire page gets stretched because of the wide image.