On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 16:14:40 -0500, Paul wrote:

The laptop should have a larger storage device. Partitioning
options include MBR and GPT (even for disks less than 2TB
in size now, they use GPT). A laptop with GPT setup (becoming
more common), can have as many as five partitions.

My Dell came with six partitions.

If I
owned such a hunk of junk, I'd have to do forensics on the
whole damn thing, to find 12GB worth of backup files. They're
probably in there somewhere.

If you mean a restore partition, yeah, it's there.