7 partitions: which are OK to delete?

[samsungy]

Hey!

I have a Samsung laptop, I made it a dual boot (Fedora), but everything went kind of haywire so I used System Recovery to restore to factory settings.

Now it´s up and running again, but I have one disk (0) that divides to 7 partitions.

So, the question is: What partitions are OK to delete?
and in case someone knows, why are there so many partitions ?

Diskpart gives me the following:

Partition # - Type - Size - Offset
_________________________
Partition 1 - Recovery - 499 MB - 1024 KB
Partition 2 - System - 300 MB - 500 MB
Partition 3 - Reserved - 128 MB - 800 MB
Partition 4 - Primary - 200 GB - 928 MB
Partition 5 - Primary - 706 GB - 200 GB
Partition 6 - Recovery - 22 GB - 907 GB
Partition 7 - Recovery - 1024 MB - 930 GB

Disk Management gives me:

#1 Healthy (Recovery Partition)
#2 Healthy (EFI System Partition)
#3
#4 (C: ) Healthy (Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary Partition)
#5 (DATA (D: )) Healthy (Primary Partition)
#6 Healthy (Recovery Partition)
#7 Healthy (Recovery Partition)

MiniTool Partition Wizard gives me:

Partition - File system - Type - Status
_________________________

#1 - Recovery - NTFS - GPT (Recovery Partition) - None
#2 - SYSTEM - FAT32 - GPT (EFI System partition) - Active & Boot
#3 - - Other - GPT (Reserved Partition) - None
#4 - C: - NTFS - GPT (Data Partition) - System
#5 - D: DATA - NTFS - GPT (Data Partition) - None
#6 - SAMSUNG_REC2 - NTFS - GPT (Recovery Partition) - None
#7 - SAMSUNG_REC - FAT32- GPT (Recovery Partition) - None


SOLVED

After trying to follow the steps to the solution below, I ended up deleting all partitions except #6 and #7 as I had verification trouble (even though I tried using a generic key).

But that did the trick, I got rid of the unwanted partitions from the linux (Fedora) adventure. I´ve decided to list the partitions here, in case someone else looks for what partitions are normal to be there for a fresh Samsung laptop with Windows 8 or Windows 8.1.

(Disk Management: )
Partition # - Volume - Type - File System - Status - Capacity - Free Space
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Partition 1 - - Basic - - Healthy (Recovery Partition) - 22.71 GB - 22.71 GB
Partition 2 - - Basic - - Healthy (Recovery Partition) - 1.00 GB - 1.00 GB
Partition 3 - - Basic - - Healthy (Recovery Partition) - 499 MB - 499 MB
Partition 4 - - Basic - - Healthy (EFI System Partition) - 300 MB - 300 MB
Partition 5 - (C: ) - Basic - NTFS - Healthy (Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary Partition) - 906.90 GB - 866.02 GB

 

[Darkbreeze]

I'd use magic jellybean to extract your product key from the system: https://www.magicaljellybean.com/keyfinder/

Record that on paper.

Download and create installation media on disk or USB using the product key you recorded:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/create-reset-refresh-media


And do a clean install, deleting ALL partitions and allowing Windows to create the necessary partitions and perform any necessary formatting automatically. This is the best way to create a clean, fresh system.

Win8 Clean install: http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/2299-clean-install-windows-8-a.html

 

[samsungy]

I'd use magic jellybean to extract your product key from the system: https://www.magicaljellybean.com/keyfinder/

Record that on paper.

Download and create installation media on disk or USB using the product key you recorded:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/create-reset-refresh-media


And do a clean install, deleting ALL partitions and allowing Windows to create the necessary partitions and perform any necessary formatting automatically. This is the best way to create a clean, fresh system.

Win8 Clean install: http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/2299-clean-install-windows-8-a.html

Will try that thank you !

 

[Darkbreeze]

No problem. That usually does the trick.