will deleting certain partitions cause hard drive issues?

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may or may not be the correct section, i was already on here about to post about a problem i resolved lol.

anyways i have 2 x 1tb hard drives that are my storage, however the one has partitions on one being a recovery, so must be what my os was originally on however i dont remember formatting it to have partitions and so i have 109gb left on this one and 368gb on the other so i cant do any swap arounds, if i was to start deleting the partitions i dont actually need, will it cause issues for the rest of whats on there?
 
If all your Windows files are on a totally different drive, then it shouldn't cause any problems. But whenever you tinker about with HDDs, you should always back up your data just in case. :p
 
Shutdown pc.
Disconnect both drives, turn pc on.

If it boots up ok, then it's safe to fiddle with the partitions.

As above though, take a full backup first.
 
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