N585 partitions

Anyone know why the heck there's *eight* partitions on a Win8.1 N585 system?



Geez.... what are they all for?

Here's my guess... please feel free to correct/expand on what I have here:

Partition #0, Windows RE (Recovery - Windows partition for safe mode?)
Partition #1, EFI, Bootable partition
Partition #2, One key recovery partition? (not sure)
PArtition #3, Windows OS
Partition #4, ????
Partition #5, ????
Partition #6, Lenovo (empty 25GB) - what the heck is this for?
Partition #7, Recovery data image?

Thanks, all

 

Hi,

actually, there is nine partitions in your case. One of them, MSR partition is not shown in Windows Disk Management. You can check this in diskpart utility.

Partition #1 -> Windows RE partition - stores winre.wim - boot image to boot Windows Recovery Environment
Partition #2 -> EFI partition, Bootable partition, conatins EFI boot files (bootmgr.efi)
Partition #3 -> Lenovo Recovery System partion (LRS_ESP), stores lrs.wim boot image (OneKey Boot Environment)
Partition #4 -> Microsoft Reserved System partition - partition required for Microsoft EFI system
Partition #5 -> Windows OS partition
Partition #6 -> Windows Recovery Partition that was created during Windows 8.1 Upgrade process (Win8->Win8.1)
Partition #7 -> not sure what type partition (check this in dispart), maybe another winre partition
Partition #8 -> Lenovo partition for created backup images by LenovoOKR tool (default path in LenovoOKR)
Partition #9 -> PBR_DRV partition (Lenovo) that contains Windows image and other required images for factory recovery (lrs.okr, boot.okr, winre.okr, etc)

I have posted Lenovo OKR 8 disk layout here. Maybe you will able to find additional info in followed posts in this thread.

 

Awesome, thanks for the explanation! Just seems like overkill compared to the days where there was the EFI partition, the recovery portion, the OS, and the recovery drive