Drive showing in My Computer but not in Disk Managment

I have figured out that the drive causing the problem is the System Reserved on Disk 0. If I set it to another drive letter such as "G", the "I" drive goes away, but when I remove the drive letter I set, the "I" drive comes back. I tried option 3 on Brink's tutorial. I got an error saying "Virtual Disk Service error: The path is not found."

If I delete the partition after backing it up, then recreate it and restore the files, will that mess up Windows' ability to use that should it ever need to?

Also as for the pagefile and the oddly formatted drive, I removed the pagefile completely, and am in progress backing up data off that drive to reformat it properly. I will add the pagefile in the future if I ever need to but I've never had a problem with 16 or 32GB of ram and no page file on other computers.

At the moment, the "I" drive is not showing in My Computer. Sometimes it goes away for an hour or two but it has always come back.

Prof Kerfuffle said:

Have you tried this as a solution?

Hide physical drives in Windows Explorer

Really it's for XP but works on Vista and thusly it should work on 7.

Here is the link to demonstrate it on Vista Hide Drives from Your Computer in Windows 7 or Vista

If it works it isn't as complete of a solution as removing the drive letter but hopefully it will hide it from explorer. It's a wildshot but could work. :)

I'd do that, but it would only be a band-aid that will come to bite me later if I try to set something as the "I" drive and forget I set that.

Brink said:

No. You really don't want to delete or mess with the "System Reserved" partition like that. Doing so could make your Windows unbootable, and will be a real pain to sort out.

When using Option Three, does it show the I: letter after "list volume"? If not, then that would be why you got the error. If you haven't already, try Option Three when the I: letter is showing in your My Computer window to see if it may also show in the command prompt to hopefully be able to remove it.

I'm just gonna go ahead and delete the partition to have this problem over with because I've done it a few times in the past and no issues have shown up from doing that. I just wanted to see if I could get the I: drive thing fixed without having to delete the partition.

And pain to sort out doesn't apply to me :P
I reinstall windows every few months just because anyway, and horribly messing up my system would just give me a good reason to do it again.

No, it didn't show that drive when I used list volume.