Recovery and Partitions

Hi,
I have a T530.
C is my primary operating drive
Q is Lenovo recovery drive
I shrunk C and created a logical partition for data with a different drive letter.
If I use Lenovo's recovery software, when it restores factory state to C drive wil it overwrite/remove the logical partition that I created or will my data be safe and remain?
Thanks.

I believe if you restore factory defaults your entire hard drive will be repartitioned to it's default state. So I would suggest you do that one-time backup of your operating system via Lenovo Rescue & Recovery on a 16GB USB stick (or an external hard drive), then repartition your hard drive (which you've done already) and then backup entire drive via 3rd party software and keep your Lenovo R&R recovery image for when you want to sell or trade your laptop.
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