Hiding system partition - will it boot?

[Calle2014]

Friends

I have this partition configuration on my Win 7:

C: Healthy (Boot, Page file, Crash Dump, Primary partition) 145 GB
E: Healty (System, Active, Primary Partition) 608 MB
Programs D: Healty (Logical drive) 312 GB
Service002 H: Healty (primary partition) 700 MB

I would like to hide the E: partition which I believe is the one that the system uses when booting. It has the following folders and files:

Boot
System Volume Information
bootmgr

Can I do that and still boot? What about getting rid of the partition drive letter? Can I remove that and still boot?

I also would like to get rid of that Service002 H: partition as I believe it is the Thinkpad recovery partition. But am not a 100% sure as it also has some of the same folders and files as the partition E:

bootmgr
Boot
Recycle bin
System Volume Information
Recovery
Tvtos
preboot

Do you think I can just delete it and not cause any problems when booting? I have made an Image of the full disk so I am not worried about not being able to re-install Win 7 if needed.

Thanks for any input on this.

Calle

 

[rustberger]

Don't delete. should be safe to hide.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/82994-drive-letter-add-change-remove-windows.html

 

[Calle2014]

Thanks, Rustberger

I noticed a program called EasyBCD somewhere on this forum. If I want to make the C: the boot drive, and then delete the E partition, would that work?

There is that option in EasyBCD to change boot drive, which I am thinking about.

I assume E: is now the boot drive as it says "system" and is active. But on the other hand, the C: drive says "boot". I am confused here.

What do you think?
Calle

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi and welcome to SevenForums,
Post a screen shot of disk management window,
Boot manager shouldn't have a drive letter assigned to it :/
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/209885-bootmgr-move-c-easybcd.html

 

[Calle2014]

Ok, I include a screenshot here.
Thanks
Calle

 

[whs]

1. The bootmgr (active) partition needs no drive letter. It is 'hard wired' to the MBR

2. Use my tutiorial that TZ has linked. Then you can forget the E partition.

 

[gregrocker]

I'd also move the Bootmgr to C. No need to remove the Recovery partition until you're ready to do a Clean Reinstall Factory OEM.