Confusing HDD in Computer management

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BungalowBill

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My System that I had just built, Mobo P8Z77-V Deluxe, 3770K CPU, 16gb Ram, 240 GB SSD, 2TB WD Green HDD, Win7 os running in 64 bit.

When I click on Computer in windows only my SSD and DVD Rom show up along with Asus Web Storage Drive

In Disk Management, SSD is set up as Disk0 C: simple, basic, Healthy (boot, Page File , Crash Dump, Primary Partition.
The 2Gb HDD is Disk 1 and shows up as System Reserved (100Mb ) Healthy ( System , Active, Primary Partition). The rest of the drive is unallocated and its partition style MBR.

The questions are
1. Does the System Reserved have to be there?
2. Do I just make the unallocated portion a new system volume?
3. Do I assign a drive letter to both the " System reserved" and the Unallocated portion?

I did not format or partition the drives and I assuming that Win 7 had done it on installation.

The reason is I would like to put anything and everything I can other than the O/S on the HDD.

Thanks for any help in advance
Cheers BB
 
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So....the 100MB "System Reserved" is on the 2TB drive. That means you had both drives (SSD and HDD) installed when you installed Windows. Windows created that little partition.

That 100MB partition holds the Boot Manager code and the Boot Configuration Database. Do not get rid of it, nor try to assign it a drive letter.

Make the rest of the 2TB a volume, and assign it a drive letter. You can then use it to your hearts content.
OR
If you're not very far along with installing things...start again from the beginning.
Remove the HDD, and install Windows with only the SDD installed. This will put the Boot files (100MB partition) directly on the SDD. Hook up the HDD, and make the whole thing one partition.
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So....the 100MB "System Reserved" is on the 2TB drive. That means you had both drives (SSD and HDD) installed when you installed Windows. Windows created that little partition.

That 100MB partition holds the Boot Manager code and the Boot Configuration Database. Do not get rid of it, nor try to assign it a drive letter.

Make the rest of the 2TB a volume, and assign it a drive letter. You can then use it to your hearts content.
OR
If you're not very far along with installing things...start again from the beginning.
Remove the HDD, and install Windows with only the SDD installed. This will put the Boot files (100MB partition) directly on the SDD. Hook up the HDD, and make the whole thing one partition.
 
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