Win7 supposed to create 200mb hidden partition?

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I looked in disk manger in Win7 and am seeing a 200mb hidden NTFS partition on HDD that I installed Win7 to that has 31.9mb used of 200mb. Has a long catalog number and says 'system, active, primary partition'. C: comes after that partition and says 'boot, pagefile, crash dump, primary partition'. Is that where Win7 puts system files backup in case of C: crashing or what?
 
Yes, if you install Windows 7 on a clean bare hard drive, it will create a 200MB partition with no drive letter for "stuff," primarily hidden files that relate to booting the OS and other duties. Perfectly normal...
 
With 6801, I thought that was just a beta feature. However, I now think it's more to do with creating a small partition at the beginning of the drive, that 7 can write/read start up files from. The edge of the disk is the fastest area of the disk so it makes sense to keep all of the kernel files there so it loads quickly.
 
That is an interesting way to ensure quick start ups.

Might upset some netbook users, with tiny SSDs, but isn't a bad idea.
 
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