Can I Delete This System Reserved Drive?

[yozo67]

The OS (Windows 7 Ultimate 64-Bit) is installed on C: drive, which leads me to believe that E: drive is the one I need. There is an old (albeit unused) OS installation on G: drive, but as I said, I don't use it, and I will never boot to it.

So, do I need F: drive's System Reserve? Or can I delete it/format it?

How do I go about this?

 

[Solandri]

Right-click My Computer / This PC. Click Manage -> Disk Management.

That'll give you a graphic representation of which physical drive each partition is on, and should clear up which system reserved partition is linked to your C: drive. You can delete the other one. Right-click the partition you want to delete, and delete it. (If the partitions were bigger, I'd also say expand the remaining partition to take over its space. But a 100 MB expansion isn't worth the risk of data corruption.)

 

[dudeman509]

Open Computer Management, then go to storage and disk management. Right click on the drive and change drive letter and paths. Remove the letter.

You can't delete that partition entirely, but that will at least remove it from there.

 

[yozo67]

Right-click My Computer / This PC. Click Manage -> Disk Management.

That'll give you a graphic representation of which physical drive each partition is on, and should clear up which system reserved partition is linked to your C: drive. You can delete the other one. Right-click the partition you want to delete, and delete it. (If the partitions were bigger, I'd also say expand the remaining partition to take over its space. But a 100 MB expansion isn't worth the risk of data corruption.)

So from the looks of this, I was right? I can get rid of F: drive?

 

[USAFRet]

Right-click My Computer / This PC. Click Manage -> Disk Management.

That'll give you a graphic representation of which physical drive each partition is on, and should clear up which system reserved partition is linked to your C: drive. You can delete the other one. Right-click the partition you want to delete, and delete it. (If the partitions were bigger, I'd also say expand the remaining partition to take over its space. But a 100 MB expansion isn't worth the risk of data corruption.)

So from the looks of this, I was right? I can get rid of F: drive?

No.
Just remove the drive letter from E & F.

 

[yozo67]

Right-click My Computer / This PC. Click Manage -> Disk Management.

That'll give you a graphic representation of which physical drive each partition is on, and should clear up which system reserved partition is linked to your C: drive. You can delete the other one. Right-click the partition you want to delete, and delete it. (If the partitions were bigger, I'd also say expand the remaining partition to take over its space. But a 100 MB expansion isn't worth the risk of data corruption.)

So from the looks of this, I was right? I can get rid of F: drive?

No.
Just remove the drive letter from E & F.

Not quite following. Elaborate?

 

[USAFRet]

Right-click My Computer / This PC. Click Manage -> Disk Management.

That'll give you a graphic representation of which physical drive each partition is on, and should clear up which system reserved partition is linked to your C: drive. You can delete the other one. Right-click the partition you want to delete, and delete it. (If the partitions were bigger, I'd also say expand the remaining partition to take over its space. But a 100 MB expansion isn't worth the risk of data corruption.)

So from the looks of this, I was right? I can get rid of F: drive?

No.
Just remove the drive letter from E & F.

Not quite following. Elaborate?

You said..."I can get rid of F: drive?"
Do you mean delete that partition? I wouldn't.
Just remove the drive letter.

 

[yozo67]

Right-click My Computer / This PC. Click Manage -> Disk Management.

That'll give you a graphic representation of which physical drive each partition is on, and should clear up which system reserved partition is linked to your C: drive. You can delete the other one. Right-click the partition you want to delete, and delete it. (If the partitions were bigger, I'd also say expand the remaining partition to take over its space. But a 100 MB expansion isn't worth the risk of data corruption.)

So from the looks of this, I was right? I can get rid of F: drive?

No.
Just remove the drive letter from E & F.

Not quite following. Elaborate?

You said..."I can get rid of F: drive?"
Do you mean delete that partition? I wouldn't.
Just remove the drive letter.

How do I do that?

 

[USAFRet]

Right-click My Computer / This PC. Click Manage -> Disk Management.

That'll give you a graphic representation of which physical drive each partition is on, and should clear up which system reserved partition is linked to your C: drive. You can delete the other one. Right-click the partition you want to delete, and delete it. (If the partitions were bigger, I'd also say expand the remaining partition to take over its space. But a 100 MB expansion isn't worth the risk of data corruption.)

So from the looks of this, I was right? I can get rid of F: drive?

No.
Just remove the drive letter from E & F.

Not quite following. Elaborate?

You said..."I can get rid of F: drive?"
Do you mean delete that partition? I wouldn't.
Just remove the drive letter.

How do I do that?

Right click
'Change drive letter and path'
Remove

 

[yozo67]

Right-click My Computer / This PC. Click Manage -> Disk Management.

That'll give you a graphic representation of which physical drive each partition is on, and should clear up which system reserved partition is linked to your C: drive. You can delete the other one. Right-click the partition you want to delete, and delete it. (If the partitions were bigger, I'd also say expand the remaining partition to take over its space. But a 100 MB expansion isn't worth the risk of data corruption.)

So from the looks of this, I was right? I can get rid of F: drive?

No.
Just remove the drive letter from E & F.

Not quite following. Elaborate?

You said..."I can get rid of F: drive?"
Do you mean delete that partition? I wouldn't.
Just remove the drive letter.

How do I do that?

Right click
'Change drive letter and path'
Remove

...?

 

[USAFRet]

In Disk Management, not Windows Explorer.

 

[Solandri]

So from the looks of this, I was right? I can get rid of F: drive?

Not there. Scroll down. You should see a graphical representation of each physical disk, with the partitions (and drive letters) it contains.

You're looking at the area highlighted in red. I'm talking about the area highlighted in blue. That'll show you unquestionably which system reserved partition and which OS drive letter are linked.

 

[yozo67]

So from the looks of this, I was right? I can get rid of F: drive?

Not there. Scroll down. You should see a graphical representation of each physical disk, with the partitions (and drive letters) it contains.

You're looking at the area highlighted in red. I'm talking about the area highlighted in blue. That'll show you unquestionably which system reserved partition and which OS drive letter are linked.

Thank you (and everyone), I got it removed. Many thanks!