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Hello imacken;
The "System Reserved" partition, as a boot partition, is not a necessity. I have had it both ways. There is not much danger removing it, what you do by booting to the 7 DVD and running "Startup Repair" is let the DVD put all of the files that were in the seperate partition in the 7 partition, making it the "boot" partition. If you want to read up on the topic, please take a look at this: https://www.sevenforums.com/installat...ndows-7-a.html
The only consideration there might be is that in removing a partition, you change the location of the other partitions on your hard drive. That may or may not be an issue.
Cheers!
Robert