Renaming System Reserved Partition Windows 7

[toddvj]

I was searching for a solution to this problem, but all I could find was people asking if it was possible, but no solutions.

 

I decided to live dangerously and just go ahead and try it.

 

All I did was go into disk management on windows (Right Click Computer --> Manage --> Disk Management. From there, I right-clicked on System Reserved, and assigned it a drive letter. Once it has a drive letter, it is visible in my computer.

 

I renamed the System Reserved "drive" to "Windows 7" then went back to disk management, right clicked the new "Windows 7" partition --> Change drive letter and paths and clicked the Remove button.

 

Then I booted to Leopard, and changed the com.apple.Boot.plis to hide all except the new Windows 7 partition and voilá - Nice clean boot screen with only 2 Entries.

[FKA]

You don't even need to assigne the partition a drive letter.

 

right click my computer > manage > disk managment > right click reserved partition > properties >Type name (I called mine 'windows 7 boot') > OK out ..

[Hangampalli]

There actually is a way to avoid have Windows 7 create the "system reserved partition". Basically, after you load the installer and format the drive, you simply delete the system reserved partition and leave the 100mb as empty space.

 

If you want the 100mb, you can use a third party disk management system to combine it with the main partition later on.

 

BTW, you guys aren't by any chance dual booting OSX and 7 on separate Harddrives are you?

[milkaffe]

wow, thanks for telling how to rename this damn windows partition

 

now fully working dual boot of win 7 and osx 10.6 on chameleon 2.0 rc4 (2 harddrives btw).

 

cheers!

[the_WB]

I'm dual booting with 2 hard drives also. Is there a way to have Chameleon show me all drives when it boots? It shows only the OS X drive and I have to press spacebar before it will show me the Windows 7 drive.