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November 3rd, 2017 09:00

Multiple Recovery Partitions

After this was upgraded to Windows 10, I reset it back to the factory Windows 8 then upgraded to Windows 8.1. Now there is a bunch of Recovery partitions. Can something be done with these?

How would I know which is the one I need to keep?

The hard drive has four Recovery Partitions, one is 450 MB, one is 451, one is 490 MB, and one is 11.81 GB.

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November 3rd, 2017 11:00

Those partitions are all required -- one allows boot in UEFI mode, the other in legacy mode and the large partition contains the recovery image.  You can make a recovery flash drive and then do away with the recovery partitions altogether -- though before you do that, make sure the flash drive you make DOES boot the system.

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