How to use one key recovery-help!

this is a follow to my querry last time since the machine that i have doesnt have the original OS installed contrary to what is indicated in its COA.
i went to disk management and found these 5 drives:
non-letter drive Healthy (OEM Partition) 14.75 GB
C:  (system, boot,..., primary partition) 97.56 GB
E: (Primary Partition) 324.35 GB
LENOVO (D): Logical Drive
unallocated drive of 101 MB
what is a logical drive by the way?
does it mean that i still have the Original OS? how will i use the One Key Recovery?
Thanks in Advance...God Bless!

Is there a OneKey Rescue System button on your PC? Did you create backup disks?

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