Why is another partition still listed as a System Drive in win7 backup?

[kalniel]

Okay this one is really frustrating me. I used to have Windows installed on my hard drive, then added a SSD and installed Windows there.

So I currently have:

C: - SSD0, System, boot, page file, active, crash dump

D: - HDD1, active (ex 100mb reserved area before windows install)
E: - HDD1
F: - HDD1
G: - HDD1

I want to create a system image, but I've noticed win7 wants me to include E: in the image as well. In fact, it won't let me uncheck this, as it claims it's a system drive. The Disk Management tool doesn't think it is.

How on earth can I get windows backup to realise it's not a system drive?

[GoNz0]

probably pull it, then use the windows disk to fix the MBR as thats held on the 100mb partition. you should then be able to delete the old 100mb partition using the windows disk or a 3rd party (free) partition manager.

if you reinstalled with the old 100mb partition still there it will use that to tell it where windows is installed.

[kalniel]

probably pull it, then use the windows disk to fix the MBR as thats held on the 100mb partition. you should then be able to delete the old 100mb partition using the windows disk or a 3rd party (free) partition manager.

if you reinstalled with the old 100mb partition still there it will use that to tell it where windows is installed.

I can delete the 100mb D partition no problem currently, and I wouldn't mind if that was treated as the system disk, but it's not, it's the e: partition afterwards that's the problem (as it's large, and eats into system image size)

edit: whoops, accidentally moved a volume and it turned into a dynamic disk on me. Oh well, can't use it for backup now unless I move all the data off it and delete the volume to turn it back into a basic disk. Doh.