Deleting A 2nd Windows Reserved Partition?

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dragonborn123

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So I initially installed Windows 8 on my HDD prior to the arrival of my SSD to make sure my build was in proper working order. However, now that I've installed the OS on the SSD, I can't seem to remove the Windows Reserved partition from my HDD. Any advice on how I could do this?
 
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Well then running the diskpart tool from an administrator command prompt would give you that power (using the override command when in diskpart)

open a command prompt as administrator and type "diskpart"

use "list disk" to view the disks and disk numbers
use "select disk X" to select the disk to be worked on (where X is the number of that disk listed in the first command"
use "list partition;" "select partition Y;" and "delete partition" with the override command if needed in similar fashion
type "exit" when done then close the command prompt
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It was attached, but the SSD is the primary drive and based on boot timings I couldn't imagine the PC is booting from the HDD. There is a system reserved partition for the SSD, but it is hidden (I only see it when I look at the SSD properties). The reason why I'm bothered by the HDD system reserved partition is that it appears in my ordinary list of drives, which adds a bit of clutter.

Neither of these drives have anything on them except the OS, so worst case scenario, if Windows won't boot, I'll just reinstall.
 
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Ok. A simple way to get that off the screen would simply be to remove the drive letter. Go into the disk management console and "change drive letter and paths," where there's an option to remove the drive letter. It then won't appear.

Is there still a windows folder on the HDD and all the other stuff from the installation?
 
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dragonborn123

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No, I reformatted the drive, but I didn't touch the partition. I guess I could just remove the partition from the screen, but in a way that seems a little clunky. If possible, I'd like to just remove the partition entirely and turn the drive back into unallocated space.
 
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Well then running the diskpart tool from an administrator command prompt would give you that power (using the override command when in diskpart)

open a command prompt as administrator and type "diskpart"

use "list disk" to view the disks and disk numbers
use "select disk X" to select the disk to be worked on (where X is the number of that disk listed in the first command"
use "list partition;" "select partition Y;" and "delete partition" with the override command if needed in similar fashion
type "exit" when done then close the command prompt
 
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Thanks, worked perfectly.
 
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