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.

It's possible that the recovery partition ID has been lost on yours and that's why it doesn't show in DM with the right label. It probably still WORKS just fine (and you can test it with the Advanced ...