Creating a Windows 2008 Server or Win7 without 100 MB System Reserved Partition

1.Once Windows 7 Setup is loaded, press Shirt + F10 keys at the first setup screen (which  allows selection of language, keyboard and locale). A Command Prompt window will be opened.

2.Run Diskpart, the built-in disk partitioning tool of Windows 2008 R2 or Win7 with the 

following command:

diskpart

3.Type in the following command one by one, follow by Enter key to create a partition (text  in brackets are comments only):

list disk  (to show the ID number of the hard disk to partition, normally is Disk 0)

select disk 0  (change 0 to another number if applicable)

clean

create partition primary size=102400

 

(create a partition with 100 GB space; to use entire disk as one partition, omit the  “size=value” parameter switch ” create partition primary”, you can also continue to create primary partitions like "create partition primary size" size is the number you want to allocate. The other commands are: "create partition extended", "create partition logical size=number")

select partition 1

active

format fs=ntfs quick

exit

4.Type exit at command prompt to close Command Prompt window.

5.Continue installation  select the partition just created when come to partition screen.