New Local Disk appeared after OS reinstall

xchan · 13 Dec 2013

As we can see it consumed MB but when I opened the disk, nothing is in there. This appeared after I re installed my OS.

1.) Why is it created?
2.) is it safe to delete?

Golden · 13 Dec 2013

No, do not delete it...yet. It looks like it might be the System Reserved partition (100MB).

Post a screen capture image of your Disk Management screen

Disk Management - Post a Screen Capture Image

xchan · 13 Dec 2013

Slartybart · 13 Dec 2013

Golden is right, it is your System Reserve partition. Leave it alone, but you can / should remove the drive letter.

Golden said:

No, do not delete it...yet. It looks like it might be the System Reserved partition (100MB).

xchan said:

New Local Disk appeared after OS reinstall-disk-management.jpg

LMiller7 · 13 Dec 2013

Do not delete the partition. It contains the data necessary to boot the system and is of critical importance.

xchan · 13 Dec 2013

It is really uncomfortable to see 3 drives

Can I not merge it with Local Disk C?

Brink · 13 Dec 2013

Hello xchan,

Not unless you feel like possibly having to reinstall Windows after doing so.

If you like, you could remove only it's drive letter to not see it anymore without harming the partition.

Drive Letter - Add, Change, or Remove in Windows

Hope this helps, :)
Shawn

whs · 13 Dec 2013

If you want to get rid of it, you have to move the bootmgr to C. Then it's no more needed. But you do lose some functions.

Bootmgr - Move to C:\ with EasyBCD