what is purpose of 300 MB "Recovery Partition" in 8.1?

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it appears the old <F8> during boot to choose options doesn't work with this version (or I'm missing it), so I wonder exactly what the purpose of it is. Is it where the files are stored for a 'refresh'?
 

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