Unknown Drive Showing up in New Computer

Venter127

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I recently built a new computer and got a new hard drive, but I saved the (nearly full) hard drive from the old one to keep as a secondary. As of late, however, I've been noticing that a Third drive is being listed in My Computer, called "Recovery" and taking up about 15 gigs. I've attached a picture of it, but it seems to be a partition of the old Hard drive. I've avoided it in the fear that it might reset some of my settings, but what is it and how do I get rid of it? I don't want that cluttering up My Computer, and I'd prefer to have those 15 gigs back. I think this may have something to do with the time I inserted the recovery disk to my old computer into the new one (was hoping to get some drivers from it) but I cant be sure. Thank you for your help.

The drive:
http://imgur.com/gUZzI9U
 
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That "E" is a partition on the primary HDD. It is apparently the factory recovery partition.

Disk Management, and delete that partition if you do not need it any more. You can then extend the main partition to include that space.

USAFRet

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That "E" is a partition on the primary HDD. It is apparently the factory recovery partition.

Disk Management, and delete that partition if you do not need it any more. You can then extend the main partition to include that space.
 
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