Odd Partitions after Restore to Factory Condition, Why?

HP Compaq Presario CQ57, Windows 7 Home Premium SP-1 64 bit
A month ago I bought an HP Compaq Presario CQ57 notebook (laptop), which comes installed with 2 x 1GB RAM modules. It functioned fine. A couple of weeks ago, I upgraded the RAM by replacing one of the 1GB modules with a 4GB one.
When I restarted Windows, yes, it did blue screen momentarily, but recovered with another start and then things went well for a week.
Then, upon attempting to reboot, it failed. On the Windows Welcome screen, it flickers briefly before it fails and goes to a blue screen.
Using the HP Recovery Console,  after trying a recovery that didn’t work, I tried the option of restoring to factory condition. Then,  it still produced blue screens, giving error messages like IRQL less than equal and Page fault in non-page area.
I replaced the new RAM with the original 2 x 1GB RAM and tried a restore to factory condition option again. This time it worked. However, the hard drive partitions are odd.
Disc Management                             
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/163/dickman2.gif/
As you can see, Disk 0 is divided into
System 199 MB, C 75GB, not labled 133.34 GB, Recovery D 19.38, HP TOOLS E 3.97 GB.
Ignore the CD ROM below.
Isn’t System supposed to be on C? And the 133.34 GB unallocated space isn’t supposed to be there either.
I ran the restore to factory again and it produced the same disk partitioning. I consulted HP customer service, and they sent me a Windows disk and wants me to try restoring from that rather than from the Recovery provided on the hard drive. I haven’t done this yet, but is there an explanation? And actually, can’t I simply expand the C partition to the unallocated space to the right?
`~- Nehmo

Mumbodog wrote:
No "system" is the boot partition windows 7 installs by default, it is ok ...
In Disk Manager (see the pic above), the C partition has "boot" in parentheses after "Healthy". Customer Service claims it's tools from Microsoft, but I'm not satisfied that's correct. And it's only 199 MB. 
So to be clear on my question, What is the rightmost partition, the one labeled "System" in the above pic? It appears the OS and boot are on C. 
And how should Disk Manager look on a normal, successful restore?

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