Two system reserved partitions after clean install on SSD

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I've done a clean Windows 7 install to a new SSD. Did the install with the old drive unplugged, as prescribed.

However, now I'm seeing a System Reserved Partition on E which shows up in My Computer... but when I go into diskmgmt, it also shows a second System Reserved Partition with no drive letter.

So the marked E partition is obviously from the old drive, now revealing itself since it's no longer on the boot drive, but I can't find anything guiding me through how to safely merge it back into the main drive; everything seems to be for people who've installed Windows on their new SSD with the old drive still plugged in -- I can't figure out if that's a different problem than mine, or if I somehow wound up with it anyway and I just need to follow all those tutorials about the 3x system repair.

Thanks for the help!
 
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Reyaz123
You could try deleting that obsolete partition using disk management and extend your original partition using the now unallocated space that remain from the deleted obsolete partition. There is a risk it could mess with the other reserved one that you dont want to remove.

Before attempting that, create a recovery disc just in case it fails to boot afterwards so the system boot up can easily be repaired
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-ca/windows7/create-a-system-repair-disc


Better yet, I suggest you post an image of your disk management window
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I would advise against modifying the reserved partitions because they contain important system and boot files.

Apologies if this doesn't solve your question at all but there is never a good reason to change or move around that partition
 
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I have a functioning partition on my new primary drive -- the SSD, that is. The one which popped up and was assigned a drive letter is not actually being booted from, but simply showing the old partition from when it used to be a boot drive. I suppose at only 100mb it could be useful to keep around for an emergency boot, but I'm curious nonetheless.
 
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Thanks, I've got that. But my boot SSD has its reserved partition, just as it should, confirmed by diskmgmt. What I'm referring to is a superfluous, obsolete reserved partition from the previous Windows 7 install which was made to the original HDD -- a separate drive entirely, which I'm now only using as a secondary drive, no boot, but which I don't wish to wipe fully. Thus the issue of safely eliminating a superfluous, obsolete partition from a storage drive.
 
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You could try deleting that obsolete partition using disk management and extend your original partition using the now unallocated space that remain from the deleted obsolete partition. There is a risk it could mess with the other reserved one that you dont want to remove.

Before attempting that, create a recovery disc just in case it fails to boot afterwards so the system boot up can easily be repaired
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-ca/windows7/create-a-system-repair-disc


Better yet, I suggest you post an image of your disk management window
 
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