3 different partitions
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canadianvice
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If it's your boot drive, those partitions are mission-critical. They can't be deleted without compromising your ability to boot. Leave them be. It could be an issue of order - sometimes depending on what order the partitions were made you can lock out joining portions together.
You may need to reformat and repartition the drive, but for the amount of space lost with its current configuration, I would suggest not bothering. As always, back up your data.
canadianvice
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Was it in when you were configuring your original install? The thing that gives me pause is those names are usually for the critical records needed to boot. If you're sure you're in the clear, in order to format the drive you may need to boot into an alternative tool like GPARTED (see google for a download) or the Windows Boot disc. It's probably seeing it as protected from within the Windows environment and thus prohibiting you from deleting it within the OS. You'll have to do it outside of it....
But a warning: usually when that's the case, you shouldn't be deleting it. I suspect you'll want to just leave it as is, unless you have a really compelling reason. 600mb of 227GB is negligible, and I expect if you try and resolve this, you're going to cause more problems for yourself than you'd care to for all of 600mb.
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