Random 500MB drive, can I remove it?

hushpuppi3

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Alright so I've replaced my old 1TB HDD for a 500Gb SSD. I own a 2TB HDD that I will use to store music/pictures, anything else that isn't OS or software. Thing is, I have another random 500Mb drive showing in My Computer. Its hard to explain everything since I messed up a couple times (eventually all worked out by removing all hard drives and installing win10 with only the SSD installed) so it's really hard for me to explain when it all showed up, etc, so I attached a screenshot of my disk management:

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The 500Mb drive- labeled 'question'- only showed up after I reconnected my 2TB HDD. I was able to get win10 fully functioning with just the SSD after correctly installing it. does this mean I can get rid of the D: drive without any complications? I believe in my first attempt to install win10 on my SSD that it installed on my 2TB HDD since it didn't ask where to install it, and the 'question' drive is a remnant of that.

Also, should I move the recovery partition to the 2TB HDD? I don't think I'll really need it but I would like to have that space in my SSD for applications
 
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If you access D: through File Explorer, do you see anything in there that you think you need? It says it is using about 15MB. I can't imagine anything important is in there.
If Windows 10 is running fine off the SSD before the 2TB was attached then whatever is on the 2TB is not needed by Windows 10.
If you only intend the 2TB for storage and don't have anything on there at the moment then it is safe to delete the partition and reclaim the space.

The 450MB recovery partition on the SSD is necessary and you shouldn't delete it.
If you access D: through File Explorer, do you see anything in there that you think you need? It says it is using about 15MB. I can't imagine anything important is in there.
If Windows 10 is running fine off the SSD before the 2TB was attached then whatever is on the 2TB is not needed by Windows 10.
If you only intend the 2TB for storage and don't have anything on there at the moment then it is safe to delete the partition and reclaim the space.

The 450MB recovery partition on the SSD is necessary and you shouldn't delete it.
 
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