Why do i have three partitions

Asked 5 years, 1 month ago. Active 5 years ago. Viewed 12k times. Why does my laptop have three partitions while there is only one hard drive in it? Improve this question. Martin B.

Could it be possible that I never had these 2 others partition before the windows 10 upgrade? Confusing and not clear perhaps is the better term. Show 1 more comment. Active Oldest Votes. Yes, it is possible: When installing a Windows operating system OS on a hard drive, and if you use Windows Setup to create new partition on an MBR disk, Windows will create a system reserved partition , and if it is a GPT disk, then Windows will create a recovery partition and a EFI system partition without drive letter.

Improve this answer. Leo Chapiro Leo Chapiro Add a comment. Answer: You can go to Disk Management and fix it. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google.

Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. The Overflow Blog. Podcast The first ten years of our programming lives. Featured on Meta. When I got to the step where it asks "Where do you want to install Windows", I had multiple Recovery partitions.

Those are the partitions, in order. Can someone explain why there are 3 Recovery partitions including an unnamed one? What would happen if I were to delete them? Go to Solution. View solution in original post. Thank you very much! I sincerely appreciate your help. Your answers were exactly what I was looking for. Browse Community. Turn on suggestions. Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type.

Showing results for. Search instead for. Did you mean:. Last reply by CaptainPlanet Solved. CaptainPlanet42 0 2 Bronze. Why so many Recovery partitions. Hey guys, hope I'm posting in the correct area. Thanks for the help! All forum topics Previous Topic Next Topic. Solution 1. Accepted Solutions. Community Accepted Solution. Replies 5.

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