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Is there any point keeping my laptop's recovery partition?
My toshiba laptop came preinstalled with windows 7 home premium and has, as I expect all modern laptops do, a hidden recovery partition (it's 400MB in size). Though for some reason it also has visible primary partition along side the Windows C: partition that contains an "HDDRecovery" folder about 7.5GB in size, inside of which is a file saying not to modify or delete it as it could "damage the recovery system". The D: drive is 116GB in size, identical to the C: drive, so basically it's half the size of the HDD in this laptop (which is around 250GB - this laptop is getting on a bit incidentally).
After upgrading to windows 10, a few things seemed a bit broken so I decided the recover the laptop but I couldn't, as the recovery system was also apparently broken. The option for recovery in settings doesn't give me the choice to access the toshiba recovery system anymore. In windows 7 all I had to do was press F8 before windows loaded to get into the advanced boot options menu and choose repair and go from there but that no longer works either. I've been reading how win10 did away with recovery options, or something along those lines so presumably that's why it no longer works. So as and when I do come back to windows 10, will there be any point in keeping the D partition?
What with it taking up half the hard disc for some reason (a "brilliant" idea by Toshiba no doubt), I won't miss it if it's gone but I just wanted to check it is indeed rendered useless by windows 10, or I had done something wrong to make it stop working?