Reformat / reinstall on new laptop. Partitions query.

[Jack Slack]

Bought a new Dell laptop. Preparing to reformat / reinstall so its setup how I want it.

There are two disks.

Disk 0 - 320gb - I want this as my data drive (D:)
Disk 1 - 128gb - I want this as my primary drive (C:)

Disk 1 currently has 3 partitions.

Partition 0 - 101gb - OS (C:)
Partition 1 - 40mb - oem reserved - hidden
Partition 2 - 25gb - system recovery (F:) - hidden

Do I really need these partitions? Can I get rid of them?

I am old school when my primary drive gets messed up. I just reformat the disk, reinstall from scratch, and patch with latest updates from the net. I've never used an image restore - nor had the urge / need to.

Comments?

Thanks in advance.

[Commander Wolf]

Partition 1 is the diagnostics partition and Partition 2 is the recovery partition. Obviously, if you can manage your own diagnostics and OS recovery, you don't need them.