Disk Management Screen Change

I started with this Disk Management screen dated 052214 which is attached below:



I want to recover, format as a single NTFS partition, the System Reserved disk (no letter assigned) at the bottom of the Volume list.

I right clicked on the disk and assigned it a letter.

Now I have the Disk Managment screen dated 052414 which is attached below:



I am deeply troubled that it is now next to drive C: as part of Disk 0.

If I right click on it in the volume column (upper part of display) I see some options including 'format' and 'delete volume.' (See below:)



Should I graciously back out of what I've done? Should I 'hide' the drive letter to get back to where I was? If I shut down will the new arrangement prevent my next boot?

thanks

baumgrenze

I'm not sure why you are troubled about System Reserved being right next to C on disk 0, that is it's default location and nothing changed except you giving it a drive letter.

You notice the System, and Active flags in the system reserved? That is what is booting your computer.

I would remove the letter, leave that alone, it's only 100MB.

To safely get rid of System Reserved, see:

TeraByte Unlimited Knowledge Base

Thank you for making me take a closer look. I'd missed the 'order-of-magnitude difference' between Mb and Gb. I was hoping I'd gained greater access to a 'missing disk,' but that's another story. Sooner or later I will sort out how to use a Windows 7 environment to create a bootable CD from the PartedMagic .tar.gz Linux file I bought the other day.

thanks

baumgrenze