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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.
Very similar to this question, but it doesn't have any answers.
– EAKAE – 2014-02-20T03:32:54.8471Without looking at what's inside either of them, one might be the recovery environment and the other will have the recovery image on it. – Michael Frank – 2014-02-20T03:44:46.460
@MichaelFrank What would the recovery environment be used for? Is there any advantage to having them separate? Also, both recovery partitions are completely unused. – EAKAE – 2014-02-21T05:34:28.187
I don't pretend to know exactly why they're like that. The Recovery Environment needs to be able to boot separately from Windows. As for why the partitions are empty, I would hazard a guess that either Windows just can't view the partitions correctly, or they don't have anything yet as you haven't created any recovery media yet. Lenovo have a very good support team, you'd probably find out if you called them. – Michael Frank – 2014-02-21T09:59:17.220