Why do I have two Healthy (Recovery Partitions)

Question

I am just starting to install Linux Mint on my new Acer E 15. It came with Windows 8.1. When I started to make the partition, I saw that there are three recovery drives:

• one Health (EFI System Partition)
• and two Healthy (Recovery Partitions)

I am hoping that I can delete the 14.22GB recovery partition to reclaim the space on it. Can I do that? How?

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Other info:

• Installing Linux Mint but I want to dual boot. I don't want to do anything that would compromise my windows install.

Answer 1

Your machine. model E5-573-55W1, is Canadian in origin. Therefore, I suggest you go to their website, enter its serial number, as their website demands the S/N to get any information from them.

In general, one of those recovery partitions can be deleted if you write the content off to a USB flashdrive. Me, I would make two copies, one on each of two flash drives, as flash drives do fail. How to do that? Either step through this Microsoft generic procedure, or when you reach Acer via the first weblink above, , tell the Acer rep you received the machine with no recovery media, and therefore you want to make one.