Why did my laptop come with hard drive in two partitions?

[SpeedTrainer]

I bought a Lenovo G50-45 laptop and noticed my hard drive is split between C: and D: I was just curious why they don't just put everything on C: The D: has two folders in it, Applications and Drivers. The Applications has McAfee inside and Drivers has drivers for things like AMD, Audio, Lan, touchpad, etc... So what is the reason for having two partitions? I am thinking about just converting everything to just one. Thanks.

 

[greens]

You could convert it to just one.

It is most likely a safety thing, trying to keep your important system files secore on drive C while programs and other stuff can be held on drive D where it can't do any damage.

 

[TheyThinkImNinja]

if one of the partitions are named system recovery, or has a smaller size it may be the operating system, while the other may be meant just for your files, this might be so you dont mess anything up for basic users, There may also be hidden partitions you cant see and in that case you may use Gparted to remove or combine those 😛

 

[reedo_43]

More than likely it is about 8 gigs in size and consists a lenovo's factory image in case you need to do a restore. Perfectly normal fo HP, Dell, Lenovo. It is a good thing...

 

[ArtPog]

As reedo_43 has informed you the so-called "Recovery Partition" presumably serves a useful purpose if & when the time may come when, due to system corruption or a defective HDD/SSD, you need to return the system to its original factory default.

But take my advice...don't depend upon this "Recovery Partition" as a comprehensive backup tool. Rather, consider a disk-cloning program (there are "freebies" available) that you can (and should) use with some frequency to clone the TOTAL contents of your system drive to a USB external HDD/SSD so that you will have a reasonably current up-to-date comprehensive backup of your system. You'll bless the day you have such should your system go awry.

Should you desire, you could even consider purchasing a cheap HDD with just enough disk-space capacity to contain the cloned contents of your present factory-fresh laptop as it currently exists and squirrel that disk away to be used in the event you ever need a copy of your laptop's system with the factory defaults.

But you would use another HDD (or SSD) to serve as the recipient of the cloned contents of your system that you would use routinely in the weeks, months, and years ahead.

 

[Spencer_10]

Yes thats normal , what isn't though is the inbuilt spyware

check out the new Lenovo for inbuilt Spyware:

http://thehackernews.com/2015/09/lenovo-laptop-virus.html