The 100mb Windows 7 and Windows 2008 System Recovery Partition typically sits as the first partition on a disk which is enough to confuse VCB and cause it to fail, so it needs to moved (not removed) and here’s how.

Before running this in the live environment the virtual machine should be powered off AND backed up, of course I know you’d do that anyway.

Steps to follow:

1. Power on the virtual machine and log in with an administrative account.
2. Open a Command Prompt.
3. Type diskpart and press ENTER.
4. Type select vol c and press ENTER.
5. Type shrink desired=100 and press ENTER.
6. Type list vol to verify that volume C is still selected and press ENTER.
7. Type Create Part Primary and press ENTER.
8. Type List vol to verify that the new 100mb volume is selected and press ENTER.
9. Type Format fs=ntfs quick and press ENTER.
10. Type Assign letter r and press ENTER.
11. Type Select vol 1 (1 is typically the existing boot partition