Question about multiple recovery partitions

Hello,
My question is: what is the default partition for toshiba z930 ultrabooks.
According to Windows 8 disk management, there are 6 partitions on my drive. From what I understand, the 6Gb is for hibernation (my computer's RAM is 6Gb), and the 101.38Gb is the main partition, and the 10.60Gb is for Toshiba recovery. I heard that the 450Mb partition is meant for Windows repair tools. But why are there two of such partitions?
Recently I did a reset using the built-in windows 8 function. Not sure if this caused the "duplicate" 450Mb partition.
What is the default partitioning scheme for toshiba z930 ultrabooks? My purpose of asking is partly out of curiosity but mainly because I am afraid of creating more of these 450Mb partitions if I should do a reset in future. Logically, a reset should not cause the duplicate partition but why are there two seemingly identical partitions? (I did not check the partition scheme when I first bought the computer, so I am not sure if I caused the duplicate. )
Thanks very much in advance for taking the time to help me. I've attached a screenshot of the partitions.
http://oi57.tinypic.com/2rw6zia.jpg

I don't have a Toshiba machine here, but I know something about Windows 8 and about UEFI/GPT partitioning. I can tell you what four of the six partitions are for.
Starting from the left side, the first partition contains the recovery environment (starts with the Choose-an-option menu); the second (System) partition contains the boot files; the C partition has Windows of course; and the 10.6 GB one is the recovery partition, which contains the image of the whole drive (including itself).
I don't know what Toshiba uses the other two partitions (450 MB and 6 GB) for. Perhaps somebody here will explain those to us.
Peculiar that Toshiba does not have the 128 MB Microsoft Reserved Partition. I thought everybody must have that one.
Configure UEFI/GPT-Based Hard Drive Partitions
PS A Reset preserves the partitioning and the hibernation image is the file C:\hiberfil.sys.
-Jerry

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