Unknown hard drive partitions

Kevbur123

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Unknown hard drive partitions

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As you can see this is my correct setup but windows disk management shows a few different partitions. I understand why they do not show in my computer.

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As you can see disk 0 has four partitions the largest one is my os and associated files and the black non allocated one is samsung 850 evo over provisioning. What are the other two healthy recover partition and healthy EFi partition. Would i be correct assume the one is windows 10 recovery partion and the other is to do with uefi bios ?
What even stranger is samsung shows another partion this one been only 20mb.

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Is this a prebuilt OEM computer (HP, Dell, Lenovo, etc)?

Between recovery partition and other factory things, there is often extra partitions like that.
Its kind of weird in that windows actually gave them a letter though.

If this is the case, you should be able to safely go into disk management and remove the drive letter from them.
 

Kevbur123

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Hmm not sure as i am now learning that one is windows 10 recovery area the other is the uefi information for the motherboard and the other 20bmb is the windows recovery boot image i think i will update asap
PS NO THIS A CUSTOM BUILT PC
 

Kevbur123

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I am sorry that joke is wasted on me and i have already put a image of disk management in the starter post
 

Joe_Isuzu

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Thank you for the link. It explains some questions about partitioning I had. Specifically why recovery, sys, and other non primary or data partitions are so much larger than the actual used space inside of them. My Lenovo Y510P has a whopping 8 partitions. 2 of the partitions, one a recovery, total 45GB but only use 15.38GB.