Why Windows 7 creates a Partition of 128 MB on UEFI?

When installing Windows 7 on a computer UEFI, Windows is still a 128 MB partition, which as far as I KNOW, stores the bootloader of the second stage of the BIOS boot. This multi-boot system, and the extra partition is rather... awkward. The partition, as tested by ' sudo dd if = / dev/sdb2 | hexdump', contains nothing of interest (no file system and only traditional bytes null/debugging (0x00, 0xFF)). I have my ext4 partition extended over this partition and resized file system? Or is it a kind of magic in there?

I guess it's "Install, upgrade and activate", because the partition is created in install it. Right?

See if what follows will help you

http://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Reserved_Partition

http://TechNet.Microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd799232 (v = ws.10) .aspx

http://TechNet.Microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd744301 (v = ws.10) .aspx

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