Hi, my notebook is Lenovo U430p with preinstalled Windows 8 and updated on Windows 8.1 via store.
After this I create OneKey user backup with win8.1 and this windows 8.1 i reinstalled from onekey recovery many times.
I have question today i look on windows drivers tool via control panel and i see very strange informations.
In my hdd are: C: system Windows partition, D Lenovo partition with drivers and user backup onekey, OEM partition, UEFI partition, BUT NOW I HAVE 12 RECOVERY PARTITIONS!
I need help - how do I know which one recovery partition is true from these twelve partitions?
I want find these 11 partitions what i can delete/remove.
(look on my image, in image is all see)
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Do a clean install?
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Because I not want lost Windows 8 installations on hide partitions and not lost OneKey hiden partitions.
Some tip how find which partitions go delete without lost preinstalled original Windows 8 installator in hiden partition and without lost OneKey hiden partition (because this two items are good for future when i example sold notebook so i only click on recovery button on left side and new owner have all as is buy from store. -
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I know that clean install all remove
But this i not want. Because this me delete/remove too two partitions what i not want delete. this i want leave on my hdd!
* one hiden partition with original preinstalled windows 8 installer (windows come with my notebook with oem key only installed on hide partition i havent any install disk so i must leave this on my computer)
* second hide partition with one key recovery (this works as boot partition to when i click on my notebook on reco button)
* and plus ofcorse i not want delete partition with uefi etc
i want delete only 11 from 12 partitions what are created in every install system as is show on picture in my first message in this thread
But i dont know how find what is boot partition for system what i have now (1) and whats partitions (11) are old from old installed windows previous systems
EXIST ANY METHOD HOW FIND WHICH ONE PARTITION FROM 12 IS NOW USED AS PRESERVED FOR MY WINDOWS WHAT I HAVE INSTALLED NOW? AND WHICH PRESERVED PARTITIONS (OTHERS 11) ARE FROM OLD WINDOWS INSTALLATIONS?
i try find some informations via google but without results -
If you have not found an answer - then try this.
Use something like Minitools Partition Wizard home edition to see which of those partitions are empty and which ones have some files.
Also not what their names are in the partition wizard.
You can also explore their contents using Linux Reader from Diskinternals. Maybe that will give some idea about which one is useful and which one is not.
Did you check how many partitions your system had when you bought it ? Has the number increased after that ?
In my new Lenovo system, there were 6-7 partitions total.
1GB Recovery Partition (WINRE_DRV in EPM - 382MB used) is recovery reserved by Windows
260MB EFI system (SYSTEM_DRV in EPM - 31MB used) is probably some Win 8 files
1GB OEM Partition (LRS_ESP in EPM - 500MB used) is for ??
128 MB Other Reserved partiion (only seen in EPM - 128 MB used) is for ??
890GB Win8_OS (Primary (boot,pagefile,crash dump) - 43GB used) is Win 8 and other files.
25GB Lenovo (Primary - 3GB used) contains some drivers and apps which probably came preinstalled. This also stores the recovery image made by OKR.
15GB Recovery Partition (PBR_DRV in EPM - 10GB used) probably contains recovery files for Win 8 or the initial Win 8 install files (install.wim, etc)
If you have not yet partitioned your HDDs, then follow this link and see how I used original partition serial numbers to make OKR work after I repartitioned the HDD.
Since I did not have that many partitions, I did not delete any other partitions though, but only added one for my files.
See if this helps.
https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/IdeaPa...ion-AND-make-OKR-OneKey-Recovery/td-p/1469130
Many recovery partitions (12) WHAT IS THIS?! (Lenovo U430p)
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