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Confusing partitions on HDD
I have 2 HP laptops running Windows 10. The nice thing about having two is the ability to compare them when something looks a little off or suspicious.One of my laptops had a terrible time with upgrading to Windows 10 from 8.1 (Computer A). The other was very smooth (Computer B). Despite all the problems I faced with A (many failed updates, issues getting off , I did get it to the point where it was running fine and Well, as part of doing a series of backups to preserve data, I noticed that there are striking partition differences between these two machines, both running version 1803.
Computer A has 3 partitions -- WINRE (OEM), (*) (EFI System Partition), C: (Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary Partition).
Computer B has 6 partitions -- WINRE, (*), EFI, (*), C:, I: (?), J?), Drestore)
On A:, the restore partition was removed because it originally contained Windows 8.1. Still, I don't understand why there are 2 additional partitions and what they could possibly be used for.
I'm going to install a new SSD for Computer B. Can I just take the first 3 partitions and discard the rest?