New HD Partitions Showing up Unexpectedly

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jrphoenix

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I just moved my computer to a new home my wife and I bought. I am running Windows 7 Home. When I turned on the computer it said something about system restore.. I didn't see exactly what.. but, it restored an earlier version (I never use this feature).

Anyway.. computer is working.. I have 2 HDD installed 1GB (c:/) & 2 Gb (f:/)... now it is showing 4 drives (created its own partitions)

windows c; 789 Gb free 931 Gb total
system e: 70.3 Mb free of 99.9 Mb

New Volume f: (data drive)
windows g: 859 Gb free of 931 Gb

I opened up system restore to put to the most recent version 10/2/11.

How do I remove e & g and the corresponding data. Will I have serious issues?

Thank you!
 
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hennessy1

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I can speak atleast for the system e partition. That is the recovery partition and contains the files for you to boot into recovery mode. You can delete that one but you lose that ability I believe.
 
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jrphoenix

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hennessy1 said:
I can speak atleast for the system e partition. That is the recovery partition and contains the files for you to boot into recovery mode. You can delete that one but you lose that ability I believe.
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I am pretty new to this... I have never partioned... How do I go about removing it. I checked the device manager? I right clicked and it asked if I want to restore along with basic window options?

Thank you,
 
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hennessy1

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I don't know if you can delete it now. I believe the boot files are on there. The system restore might have created it and thus if you delete it you can no longer boot.
 
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