I have two "Healthy (Recovery Partition)"s and a "Healthy (EFI System Partition)" that were not there when I got my laptop and that I cannot delete. I have a Windows 8 laptop (recently updated to 8.1) and about a week ago I decided to dual boot "Ubuntu 13.04". I only gave it a small 18.55GB partition of my hard drive as I wanted to use Windows as my main OS and Ubuntu simply to make and Linux versions of games that I create. I noticed after doing so that it added a "Healthy (Recovery Partition)" to the beginning of the drive (the first one listed).
I could never get it to be added to the Windows boot loader correctly with EasyBCD and I had to keep going to the boot options to pick the GRUB2 and then Ubuntu. I really didn't want to keep doing this and I was having some problems with Ubuntu video drivers as well. I figured that I would just use a different computer for Ubuntu so I took it off of my laptop and formatted the partition it was on. It worked okay but there was still that first "Healthy (Recovery Partition)" that I couldn't delete but I just ignored it.
After updating to Windows 8.1, I thought that maybe the boot loader would work so I tried partitioning and installing Ubuntu again (I know, mistake) but it still didn't work and I could even get it load up correctly. So I finally gave up and have completely decided that I will never dual boot a Linux with Windows again as Linux has too many problems and complications for me. The only way I'm using Linux again is by itself on a computer (I think it's kind of nice to have both, but I'd take Windows over it any day). Anyway, I decided to delete it again.
When I went to delete it, I noticed that there were two more partitions listed that were not there before and I cannot delete them. I wouldn't mind leaving them there too much (as they only take up a small amount of space themselves though if I can I'd like to), but the second "Healthy (Recovery Partition)" is keeping me from increasing my Windows partition to fill up the 18.55GB left from the Ubuntu partition.
I cannot delete them and the only option it gives me is the "Help" option which does not really give me any info on this. All three of the partitions only give me the "Help" option and I cannot delete any of them and it's strange that they are all listed as "100% Free" for space. I'd like to just have the "(C:)" and "(D:)" partitions as drive C: is my Windows partition and D: is my real Recovery "Healthy (OEM Partition)" that was there when I got the laptop.
I'm not really even sure how that second "Healthy (Recovery Partition)" got there because it is in-between the Windows partition and where the "Ubuntu" partition was and it was there before I even formatted that partition. I'll put a screenshot of the "Windows Disk Management" so that you can see what is going on. It also started listing the "Healthy (OEM Partition)" twice, but I think that is because it contains both Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 if I am correct. Any advice on how to get rid of those extra partitions would be great.