My new computer came with a partitioned hard drive. I have not create the partition. What is it?

original title: Partition of mystery

I just got a new computer. It has a 2 TB hard drive that apparently has already been partitioned, creating a drive E. I have not create the partition. The files on the partition are old EULA, the .cabs, and .dll files, but this that baffles me, is that the two disks are the same size, 2 TB. It is the size of the disk itself. Whence comes this extra drive, and how these two readers may overlap?

Should I remove this extra drive and if so, how can I do?

Thank you

Tim

Wait, I'm CONFUSED! YOU can not HAVE a PC THAT IS 4TB SIZE!


EDIT: Sorry, but Acer installed 2 HDD. (Wow!)

Be sure not to remove the 2nd partition, because it IS a recovery or backup disk.

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