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I just installed a 1tb hd on my laptop as I was running low on memory, after cleaning up images/music/movies I was still low so I bought a secondary hd...current one was 256 gig, new on is 1tb. While setting it up in disk manager I noticed I have several partitions on the old drive, 4 are labeled as recovery and one is 13gigs and another is 1gig, all say "100% free"

I've uploaded an image of my disk manager screen, too few posts for it to automatically show

I've seen some folks say when deleting these it can cause windows to not update properly, is this true? And do I need all these partitions? And how can I free up the unused memory they are taking up if not needed?

disk manager screen

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Benjamin Gunnells
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A bit of googling already gave me an answer:

The partition labelled "EFI system partition" holds data Windows and your computer need to boot. [1]

The three other partitions are clearly labelled as well. They're recovery partitions, they're used to revert windows to its original state.[2] Why there are multiple of them is explained here.

Also, keep in mind what Tetsujin mentioned when talking about computers. Memory usually means RAM.

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