I recently got a new Lenovo Y510P Laptop, with Windows 8.1, a 24 GB SSD drive, and a 1 TB Hard Drive.
When I opened up Disk manager, I realized that the Hard Drive was partitioned into six segments:
- Two primary accessible partitions each with their own drive letter (one has OS)
- one 260 MB EFI System partition (Boot partition)
- one 1000 MB OEM partition (probably lenovo software)
- one 1000 MB recovery partition
- one 12.52 GB recovery partition
I am wondering why there are two recovery partitions and what possible use they could have because one seems to be too small to fit anything.
Best Answer
See Lenovo's article titled Understanding hard drive partitions on Lenovo systems with Microsoft Windows 7 and Windows 8 - ThinkCentre, ThinkStation, ThinkPad:
There's also an explanation of Lenovo's partitioning scheme in a response to New G580 has seven partitions, Help identify? on the Lenovo support forum: