Too many partitions?

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  I have Windows 8.1 and since getting this laptop, I've re-installed it a few times and now I have the following showing in the upper portion of Disk Management:

  NO DRIVE LETTER: RECOVERY (650 mb) (100% free)
  NO DRIVE LETTER: EFI (260 mb) (100% free)
  C: NTFS (441.71 gb) (74% free)
  D: RECOVERY OEM (NTFS) 23.4GB (11% free)
  D: RECOVERY OEM 23.4GB (11% free)

  Lower Level Shows:

  4 partitions

  NO DRIVE LETTER: RECOVERY
  NO DRIVE LETTER: EFI
  C: NTFS
  D: RECOVERY OEM (NTFS) 23.4GB (11% LEFT)

  My question is, why so many partitions and drives??  Why is the recovery partition so large and almost full?  I've had this for about 7 months...
  
  Thanks in advance!

  Wednesday, May 20, 2015 3:25 PM