Help me identify original Windows 8 partitions after Windows 10 upgrade

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b-man

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I have upgraded Windows 8.1 to Windows 10 but I have forgotten to check the structure of all partitions (including recovery partition and hidden ones) before the upgrade.
What I want to do now is to do clean Windows 10 installation with preserving all Windows 8 recovery/hidden partitons.
Would someone please tell me which ones of these are original Windows 8 partitions beside that Lenovo_Recovery partition and D: partiton (which is manually created data partition)?
In other words, which of these partitions I should keep before Windows 10 reinstallation to be able to do laptop refresh with Windows 8 and all that Lenovo software that comes with it if needed?
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"Lenovo_Recovery" is the original recovery thing for whatever OS was on there before.
Everything else can be wiped out during a full clean reinstall.

What is in the D partition, "Data"?
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To revert back to win8 after the win10 upgrade you need to keep the windows.old folder. Back it up twice to be safe but keep in mind you only have until July 29th i believe to roll back for free. After that the key will only authorize for win10 and if you want to go back to 8 or 7 you will have to buy it all over again.

So you have about 6 weeks to decide.
 
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Thanks man. Yes D partition is a manually created one which contains various files. I guess I've found an original structure of Windows 8 partitions on Lenovo laptops:
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Except for the Lenovo_Recovery and 'D', everything has been overwritten with the Win 10 Upgrade.
The original 8.1 things are of no use.
 
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I already know all those infos man, but anyways thanks a lot. I've found the info I looked for in the meantime.
 
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