old system partitions: a problem?

[extropy]

I have two HDs, both just erased using DBAN because I had disk errors that previously prevented a new windows install.

One drive now has an apparently redundant old System partition on it .

1. is it redundant?
2. How can I remove this partition?

This is what disc management says about the drives:
Disk1: C: Healthy (Boot, Page File, Active, Crash Dump, Primary Partition) 1863GB NTFS

Disk 0: F: [was unnamed on boot] Healthy (System, Active, Primary Partition) 350MB FAT32

E: [on same disk as F] 931GB NTFS

Im running windows 8.1 pro

thanks for your help

 

[popatim]

Maybe you ran Dban on the same disk twice because there shouldn't be anything left on it afterwards.

 

[extropy]

Maybe you ran Dban on the same disk twice because there shouldn't be anything left on it afterwards.

during first windows installation attempt following the dban wipe, for some reason ended up with this config but the install failed. I then formatted and the install was then successful. hope that makes sense!
is it safe to delete that 350mb partition? thanks

 

[popatim]

Normally that 350MB's contains your boot files plus some spare room for future files. Deleting will usually cause the system to long boot but running startup repair a bunch of times should fix it.

Easybcd (free) can also move the boot/startup files back to C:

350mb is not enough IMO to be concerned about. I would run diskmgmt.msc and simply remove the drive letter from it.