This is a pic of my drive can someone please in simple language atel me what the partitions contain - I have a rough idea but would appreciate knowing what they are
The main C: partition holds Windows and your programs and data. The other 3 partitions usually are not accessible by the User, I see an issue in the last partition should not usually have a drive letter assigned but that depends upon the maker and how they want it.
In partition order
1) The EFI partition contains your boot files.
2)Your C drive.
3) Windows 10 Recovery Partition used when you use "Reset my PC". It contains software to rebuild OS from compressed files on C drive.
4) A vendor recovery partition to reset pc back to factory state including vendor crapware. Most people delete this partition - it is pretty useless once Windows 10 has upgraded - this would revert to original build that came with PC and gets increasingly out of date as time moves on.
There is a hidden partition as well (MSR partition) allegedly for future use but nobody has ever found out what this is for!
Thanks Berton I had a rough idea and just changing to 10 I wondered what the techies had done to get rid of a dual boot.
When you backup your PC e.g. using Macrium Reflect, ensure you backup all these partitions else you won't be able to recover a working bootable PC.
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