I tried (unsuccessfully) turning my sony vaio into a hackintosh and as a result I accidentally deleted/moved my recovery partition. I've since found out that you can't actually delete said partition, ...

So the GF needed a new laptop and so we buy a nice Huawei Matebook. A while in, I notice the 1tb drive, besides EFI and recovery partitions, has an 80gb C: "Windows" partition and a "Data" partition.

A Recovery Partition on Windows computers is a special partition that is used for System Recovery purposes. You can view the Recovery Partition in the Disk Management tool on your Windows computer.