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RrR2010

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I have a Lenovo Notebook B490 and I'm using defrag after a factory reset using OneKey Recovery. But I saw that my HD is partitioned in 3 Recovery Partition, all with 100% space free:
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I want to know why it's needed 3 partition for the recovery system and, if it's not, which one can I format.
 
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As those partitions don't show a file system I would be wary of trusting the "100%" free. I guess they are formatted in some way that Windows doesn't recognize, so it doesn't know how much space on them is used. It's 10 GB out of 500, i.e. 2% of the disk. Don't worry about it.
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Hey there, RrR2010!

I'd suggest to leave them like that. If you need the extra space on the HDD though, you can simply create a system recovery/repair disk on a flash drive or DVD: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/create-a-system-repair-disc
Then you can simply delete all 3 recovery partitions.
Basically if something goes wrong with your OS, not having a recovery partition/disk will make it hard to boot into Windows or even repair the OS.

Hope this helps! :)
Keep me posted if you need further assistance!
SuperSoph_WD
 
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As those partitions don't show a file system I would be wary of trusting the "100%" free. I guess they are formatted in some way that Windows doesn't recognize, so it doesn't know how much space on them is used. It's 10 GB out of 500, i.e. 2% of the disk. Don't worry about it.
 
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