What is SYSTEM_DRV ?

Hi !
I just would have to know what is this partition ?
And I'd like to know if I can mark the C: partition as active rather that SYSTEM_DRV without any issues. Is it possible ?

Hi pofpx,
Welcome to the forums,
That partition contains windows recovery envioment and some other critical system files that make windows 7 boot. If you delete that partition, your system will not boot anymore
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New W530 with 64-bit Windows 7 SP1 came with the following three partitions:
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C: is obvious, I've a pretty good idea what Q: is, but what is SYSTEM_DRV? Something required by Windows 7, according to other threads I've seen...
I don't need to know about it in much detail. My main questions are:
1) Does it change and therefore need to be backed up regularly?
2) To restore the system to an earlier state via an image backup, does SYSTEM_DRV need to be restored as well (assuming the drive has not been corrupted but I'm just rolling back time)?
Thanks for any enlightenment. -- JCW2
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That 1.5GB SYSTEM_DRV partition is normally seen as the 100MB "system reserved" partition if you were to do a cold fresh from-scratch Windows 7 install.
It is where Boot Manager (and the boot menu data) live. It is the one-and-only ACTIVE partition on the drive (all other partitions on the drive are NOT marked ACTIVE), and thus where the BIOS goes to start the actual boot process. Boot Manager is launched from that small ACTIVE partition, and eventually the boot process leads to starting the operating system itself which is located on the C partition (or whichever other bootable OS partition, on this same drive or possibly some other drive, that you select from the boot menu).
In the case of the delivered Lenovo system, I guess there is more in that partition (perhaps to provide other system recovery options or tools to make use of that other Recovery Partition) but in theory only about 50MB of it is really Boot Manager and related data files.
This small ACTIVE partition is ABSOLUTELY CRITICAL to the boot process, as is C of course. They are BOTH required to be backed up in a "system image" if you want to be able to restore a "system image" to a replacement drive, or transfer your bootable Windows environment to an SSD, etc.
There is normally no updating done to the contents of this partition, unless you say install a second bootable OS in another partition, or perhaps rename the name(s) of your bootable OS's that are on the boot menu presented by Boot Manager (say, using EasyBCD to do the maintenance of the boot menu). But the partition itself, whatever it contains, is 100% absolutely crucial to the boot process. It must be backed up and restored, along with your other bootable OS partitions, in order to guarantee system integrity should you need to restore from a disaster.
Now if Boot Manager is relocated into C itself (which is a legal valid configuration, just not the one the standard Win7 installer will create) and the C partition is marked as the ACTIVE partition (so that the BIOS will go here at machine startup, find Boot Manager there, and continue with the rest of the normal Windows boot process all from C), then there's no need at all for this separate partition at all. It can be deleted.
But if you have the two partitions and it is the small "system reserved" partition which is marked ACTIVE, then absolutely you must backup BOTH this partition and the real C in your "system image" backups, so that they can BOTH be restored together and restore system integrity, in the event of disaster.
Personally, I don't use (or ever expect to use) Lenovo's Recovery Partition to get back to initial factory state. I use Macrium Reflect for my own "system image" backups to an external USB 3.0 drive. And as I mentioned above, I of course backup both SYSTEM_DRV and C in my "system images".
Consequently one of the first things I did was to DELETE the Lenovo-provided Q "LENOVO_RECOVERY" partition with Partition Wizard. I simply made its space available for the partitions I created on the hard drive as well as shrinking C down to about 100GB, also using Partition Wizard.

Install Windows 7 after Windows 8

Hi there all!
I will explain my problem about reinstall Windows 7.
At the time i bought the pc, drive were partitioned in this way:
Disc 0 (SSD): Ibernation partition 8GB, not allocated space 20 GB
Disc 1(HDD): SYSTEM_DRV 200MB, Windows 7 (something like 350 GB), LENOVO 20GB, Recovery Partition 18GB and 180MB unallocated.
Then I Installed Windows 8 on unallocated space on drive 0, and deleted Windows 7, Lenovo and Ibernation Partition.
So now I have:
Disc 0: Windows 8
Disc 1: SYSTEM_DRV 200MB (impossible to delete), Data partition, Recovery partition and 180MB unallocated.
The question are:
What is SYSTEM_DRV ?
Can I install again Windows 7 using a Dvd downloaded from the web, and the product key on the back of the pc ?
Is then still bootable ?
Thanks to everyone who'll help me!
PS: Excuse me for the english, but i'm from Europe.

Hi,
This is very strange. Do you see any error message? The installation just fails or what happens? Can you be more specific please so I'll try to help you with this one?
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I have a T400 and am trying to set up an external hard drive. While I was in Disk Management, I accidentally initialized SYSTEM_DRV, renamed it, and assigned it a drive letter. I realized I screwed up and renamed it back to SYSTEM_DRV, then removed the drive letter. I've since learned that this is necessary for Win7 bootup. It still shows 1.17 GB of data on that drive in Disk Management. Am I going to have issues booting up again in Windows, and is there anything I can do to fix what I've done?
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No, Lenovo Rescue disks would probably wipe your data.
Generic Windows 7 ISO from internet would work.
Find the Pro/Home version depending on yours.
This may help: https://superuser.com/questions/557792/create-a-windows-7-system-repair-iso
Chances are, it will still work as before without intervention, I'm just saying what would help in case it stops booting.

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I'm planning to format my Partitio 1: C drive to update Windows 8 to my X220t.
I started to wonder what actually is there on the Partitio 0: SYSTEM_DRV.
After a search I found this: http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkPad-Edge-S-series/SYSTEM-DRV-partition/td-p/456319
Obviously I need "the boot files required for windows 7 to boot" for nothing. But how about that "OS" that starts when I hit the blue ThinkVantage button? Where is that OS stored?

Nope.
I made a clean install with MS discs and you can follow my strugling here: http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/X-Series-ThinkPad-Laptops/X220t-Win8-3G-not-working/td-p/1073049

Which system_drv can i remove?

I have a T420 with a 500Gb HD.
I have added a 128GB MSATA SSD with windows 7 installed on it using the recovery DVDs.
Today I noticed that both drives have a system_drv partition the one on the 500GB drive is labled D:
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Also it is labled as active. Drive Management says the drive will not start if I remove it. Is this ok? can I make my main partition Active?
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My advice would be to follow these steps:
1) Uninstall msata (just for the time being)
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3) Before "first boot' Create a baremetal copy (image) of your OEM install (your recovery install) using Acronis, Goast, or I like the (free) open source ReDo Backup and Recovery (redobackup.org), and store your image where ever you archive data.
(3a-3 optional)
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4) Clean install.
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Hi all,
I just bought a WD Blue 1TB drive to replace the stock 320GB HDD in my T530. I have Win7 installed on a 256GB mSATA SSD. However, when I swap the drives out, BIOS recognizes both drives but the laptop doesn't boot - from the HDD or the SSD.
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