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EFI and Recovery partitions.
new hp pavilion laptop, the 2 default partitions besides C:
notice they are 100% free space,
they both are before C: , however posts I have been reading call for them to be after C: for rebuilding them?
-EFI system partition, according to wikipedia this is:
"When a computer is powered up and booted, UEFI firmware loads files stored on the ESP to start installed operating systems and various utilities"
so if its 100% free space, how is it being used to load the o/s? is this a new version of the previous boot sector in previous versions of windows?
if it is actually being used as the boot startup location, how can I back up? and restore it?
-Recovery partition
this is where to install the recovery console? why would it be so large, various posts indicate a recovery console is more like 100-300mb?
I have been investigating how to create image backups for everything, o/s and files but not apps, etc, but of course they go to an external hd or the cloud. so not sure at this point just what the recovery partition is used for?