'System Reserved' Partition Question

[Preston]

I installed an SSD as my system disk C:\ (Disk 1 ). The WD drive it replaced is now used as storage for archived files. This physical drive, 'Disk 2' has two partitions, G:\ and H:\ . The G:\ partition is 100MB, and according to Disk Management in Win-7 is labled 'System Reserved'. See screen shot.

The partition in question has a few hidden system files and folders that I believe are left over from when I made the drive switch:

$Recycle.Bin (folder) 03/20/12
Boot (folder) 05/02/11
System Volume Information (folder) 03/20/2012
Bootmgr (file) 11/20/2010
BOOTSECT.BAK (file) 05/02/2011

Since I no longer use this drive as my boot drive, can I safely delete these folders and files and remove this partition in order to reclaim the space? It's not really hurting anything, but I just wanted to clean thing up a little.



Thanks in advance for any suggestions,

--Preston

[PCC-Wilson]

Hi Preston-

Yes you can.

[PCC-Jon]

Here's a good explanation of that partition:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/m.../gg441289.aspx

I'd advise keeping it on your OS drive, but now that the hard drive in question is a secondary drive, delete away!

[Preston]

Wilson and Jon,

Thank you for your prompt answer to my query! I read the TechNet article--interesting. There are a lot of good tips for Win-7 there.

I wasn't planning to do anything to my boot drive--to scared! I will clean up that other drive, though.

Thanks again,

--Preston