Why do i have so many partitions

I have 6 paritions on my windows 8.1 computer and i am wondering if i need them all and can i delete any.
The first one is a 400 MB Healthy (Recovery Partition).
The second one is a 260 MB Healthy (EFI System Partition).
The third one is my Primary Parition.
The fourth one is a 505 MB Healthy (Recovery Parition).
The fifth one is a 450 MB Healthy (Recovery Parition).
The sixth and final one is My Recovery parition 23.78 Gb NTFS Healthy (OEM Partition)
Can anyone help me?
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Hi jmfoss,
Weolcome to the hp support forums
The reason for so many partitions is the following:
Your first and second partion are used for system boot.
Third partition is you your main partition where Windows is installed.
Your fourth, fifth and helper partitions that contain third party software that is installed on reimaging .
The final partition is were are hp software is installed during system reimage.
When you hit F11 and enter HP Recovery Manager it will use fourth,fifth and sixth partition to reimage your system.
Hope this helps,
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