Block Creation of Recovery Partition
- Thread starter SHO_GuN
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Yes, if you can afford to wipe a disk on booting the setup, or are willing to test the auto-partitioning in the virtual machine.
In the Unattended - Configure Disk - "Disk Template", set the Recovery partition to 0, if wiping, or configure/format a specific partition with available space with the "Individual partition" config.
For the 1909+ Reserved Storage, disable it in Settings, before install/on an image.
Let me know if you have specific scenarios or questions.
toomuchpie
Member
This is not true
That is why i added the question mark.
crypticus
Well-Known Member
Do we have to completely automate the disk process with this? or we can still manually adjust everything in boot setup..
sry i didn't test it myself yet..
how did you kill them, answer file as per nuhi's post or post install with Computer Management?I was able to kill the recovery partition and as an added bonus, the MSR parition as well
Yes - and FYI, I also reduced the size of the EFI partition to 50 MB without any problems.
George King
Active Member
You can avoid creating system reserved partition. But it's not easy.. Also it works only if you create new partition using setup wizard - this mean, if you leave HDD unpartitioned, system reserved partition will be still there.
Original method can be found here, needed patches here, and reopened here for Windows 7.
Inside boot.wim image 2 (Windows setup) locate winsetup.dll. This file have responsible code inside. We are looking to function Callback_Createpartition that needs to be patched.
This is tested for Windows 10 20H2 (10.0.19041.630). Open file winsetup.dll in HEX Editor, locate offset 10E3CA and change 0F 84 to 90 E9. Thanks abbodi86 for transplanting Windows 7 winsetup.dll patch to Windows 10.
In different file version it should be located on different places. I have no idea how to patch it dynamically as it's not mu cup of tea. Maybe nuhi can do it as nLite have some patches, like uxtheme.dll
Original method can be found here, needed patches here, and reopened here for Windows 7.
Inside boot.wim image 2 (Windows setup) locate winsetup.dll. This file have responsible code inside. We are looking to function Callback_Createpartition that needs to be patched.
This is tested for Windows 10 20H2 (10.0.19041.630). Open file winsetup.dll in HEX Editor, locate offset 10E3CA and change 0F 84 to 90 E9. Thanks abbodi86 for transplanting Windows 7 winsetup.dll patch to Windows 10.
In different file version it should be located on different places. I have no idea how to patch it dynamically as it's not mu cup of tea. Maybe nuhi can do it as nLite have some patches, like uxtheme.dll
I have no idea about Win 11, but as seen a few posts up I was able to reduce the EFI System Partition to 50 MB on Win 10 LTSC v1809. It would not work with it set any smaller.
i would leave it at 100mb, you never know if you will want to set up a dual or triple boot later on and end up in crap creek because you set it too small. if you know you'll never dual/triple boot then go for it my boy hahaha. i personally prefer to install in isolation on different drives and use the bios boot menu.