SSD and HDD have window 7 recovery partition. Can I delete one to make room for ubuntu?

Posted by Brian Ecker on Ask Ubuntu See other posts from Ask Ubuntu or by Brian Ecker
Published on 2012-10-13T02:21:26Z Indexed on 2012/10/13 3:48 UTC
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I'm trying to install ubuntu right now, and I've run into a problem. I have Windows 7 installed on my SSD, and I want to install ubuntu on my HDD, but I already have three partitions on my HDD. The partitions are two Recovery Partitions and one data partition. What I don't understand is why my data drive(the HDD) has recovery partitions for Windows 7? The same recovery partitions(or atleast I think they are the same. Same sizes, same names, same order) are on the SSD with the Windows 7 install. Can I safely delete the recovery partitions on the HDD?

My other option, I think, is to put the boot partition for ubuntu on the SSD where I only have three partitions. Then I can put the other three logical partitions for ubuntu in an extended partition on the HDD. Can I do that, put the boot partition on one drive and the other partitions on another?

Here is a picture of the partitions and I have circled the one I would like to delete to make room. http://imgur.com/XOpJQ

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