Purchased Lenovo Thinkpad E450 with 128gb SSD. It arrives with about 68gb of free space because Lenovo has created 5 partitions -- the usual 1gb recovery partition, a 260 mb efi system partition, a 15.51gb additional recovery partition (which is empty), and a 7gb "OEM" partition (also empty). The support guy said that the latter is for storing product keys. WTF? It seems insane to me that I should need a 15.51gb second recovery partition and a 7gb partition for storing product keys.
The support guy says I can wipe and reinstall windows to get rid of the extra partitions and all of the Lenovo bloatware (he literally said bloatware), but interestingly Lenovo does not include your windows product key. No disks are included with the laptop -- no drivers disk, no OS disk. Furthermore there is no windows certificate of authenticity sticker on the laptop. I know you can dig the product key out of windows itself, but it seems extremely sketchy to me that none of this would be included with the laptop itself.
I'm concerned that if I wipe and reinstall windows I'll be missing important drivers that may be specific to the Lenovo hardware.
I'm totally new to laptop ownership:
1. Is it actually reasonable to have those enormous partitions?
2. Am I tempting fate by even thinking about wiping and reinstalling?
The support guy says I can wipe and reinstall windows to get rid of the extra partitions and all of the Lenovo bloatware (he literally said bloatware), but interestingly Lenovo does not include your windows product key. No disks are included with the laptop -- no drivers disk, no OS disk. Furthermore there is no windows certificate of authenticity sticker on the laptop. I know you can dig the product key out of windows itself, but it seems extremely sketchy to me that none of this would be included with the laptop itself.
I'm concerned that if I wipe and reinstall windows I'll be missing important drivers that may be specific to the Lenovo hardware.
I'm totally new to laptop ownership:
1. Is it actually reasonable to have those enormous partitions?
2. Am I tempting fate by even thinking about wiping and reinstalling?