Can I delete the 'EFI System Partition' without harming other data on the drive?

Can I delete the 'EFI System Partition' without harming other data on the drive?

I have three external HDDs in a USB enclosure. After a recent upgrade to Windows 7, during which these three drives were actually installed inside the PC tower, two of the three drives now have a 200 MB EFI partition, and the two drives do not show up as usable drives under either Windows 7 or Snow Leopard. One of the drives is empty; the other one, however, has a bunch of stuff on it that I want to save if possible.

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"I faced a problem with my Iomega iConnect ""seeing"" one of the NTFS partitions on my external HDD.

I had to delete the EFI partition on the drive (it used to be my MBP internal drive before I replaced it) and then everything worked fine.

If you are having problems with Windows 7 reading the NTFS drive, this could be a possible solution."