Why do I have so many Recovery Partitions?

[woodson75]

I'm running Windows 8.1 on my newish laptop and have never done any disk partitioning with it - there's just the C drive. I just noticed in my disk management that for some reason I have 4 Healthy Recovery Partitions (3 are around the 400Mb size, and 1 is almost 16Gb). I also have 1 Healthy (EFI system Partition) which is 300Mb. Could anyone explain what these are all there for, and how they got there?

Thanks for any tips.

 

[smorizio]

with laptops and pre built pc there a restore partion on the unit. you may want to email the vendor tech support see if the unit was imaged correctly.

 

[woodson75]

Yes, i'm guessing the 16Gb partition is the one that came 'built in' to the laptop (as OEMs don't include rescue disks anymore). Any idea what the other 3 could be? and what about the EFI partition?