If you want to remove partitions, it’s important to realize that you’re trading off the reasons for the layout - whatever those reasons were - for a small increase in disk space. Even the content of these partitions varies dramatically based on the decisions made by your computer’s manufacturer. What I see on my machine will be different than what you see on yours. I also suspect that recovery partitions are extremely manufacturer-dependent. The other two I suspect are recovery consoles containing the recovery environment, tools, and other recovery options. I theorize that the larger one, at 7.81 gigabytes, contains a pristine copy of Windows 10 and takes the place of physical installation media.
The three recovery partitions are more of a conundrum. It’s by far the largest partition on the drive. This is what I tend to think of as the “system” partition or drive, since it contains my system (Windows), as well as all my applications and data. The C: partition is obvious: that’s the hard disk you see and use when you’re running Windows. Confusingly, this is often referred to as the “System” partition, even though it’s not the system you and I might think of. It’s what the machine boots into when first started. The EFI partition is required by UEFI/GPT formatted hard drives.
Using one of my machines, an original Microsoft Surface tablet, as example, we see the following partitions: It’s the result of several changes over the years, including UEFI, the disappearance of installation media, and more. This leaves many people asking: why? Why all those partitions when a single partition did the job in the past? Newer machines frequently come with Windows 10 installed and the primary hard disk partitioned into as many as five separate partitions. However, if you feel the need, I do have one approach to doing it more or less safely. It’d be a shame to delete one and find out later that this was a serious mistake. As you say, you don’t know what the partitions are, so you don’t know whether or not they’re needed. Yes, you can delete partitions, but no, I would not advise it.
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