![]() ![]() Jphughan - if I read your post correctly, I need to keep the following: Partition 9 Primary 2037 MB 230 GB O-PARTITION ![]() Partition 8 Primary 11 GB 218 GB N-PARTITION Partition 7 Primary 1126 MB 217 GB M-PARTITION Partition 6 Recovery 1148 MB 216 GB DELLSUPPORT Partition 4 Recovery 462 MB 204 GB WINRETOOLS Partition 3 Primary 203 GB 629 MB SamSung-960 (my C drive) ![]() I also did a dump of all partition using the methods you have described. Diskpart can create one using the “create partition MSR” command, but you’d have to get it created in the right place. That needs to exist after the EFI partition and before the OS partition and be at least 16MB in size by default it’s immediately after the EFI partition and 16MB. You seem to be missing an MSR partition though. If the Recovery partition is somewhere else when an expansion is needed, Windows will shrink the C drive by the amount needed to create an entirely new Recovery partition, make one there, and leave the old one sitting there as useless dead weight. The sequence can be different than what I listed, and in fact it’s best to have the Recovery partition after the OS partition since that allows future Win10 releases to expand it as needed by shrinking your C drive a bit. Windows Recovery (usually 450MB-1GB in size) On a UEFI system, you need the following partitions:ĮFI (aka System or ESP, usually 100-500MB) I’ve wiped my whole drive and I can still boot into diagnostics from the F12 boot selection menu. Maybe you’d need it if your system used Legacy boot mode, but you’re not. You can absolutely delete the Dell diagnostic partition since the diagnostics are now stored in UEFI firmware. I suggest to use a new drive and kept the original one safe. Even that will put 4 partitions on the drive. If you don't use the Dell OEM utilities then the best thing for you is to do a clean install. If the partition involved with that was to be removed, you would lose that ability. Some systems can start a diagnostic utility from within Windows. If you wanted, you could do a bcdedit /enum all command and follow where and how the partitions are being used. Just for the heck of it, open an adminstrative command prompt and type reagentc /info and include the listing. If you do not EVER desire to take advantage of their purpose you may not need . The OEM partitions on the drive are there for a reason. You can attach a picture using the Rich formatting option. The other way is to take a snipping tool picture of the Disk Management window and expand the columns so the descriptions can be read. It would be better for the discussion if you were to select a specific drive and they do a lis par command to get the partitions showing in the correct order. Your initial post has a Diskpart listing showing Volumes. The Recovery partition with the WinRE Tools is for recovery options, the larger one will hold data needed to rebuild your system. The answer to that is to look at the way Dell set them up. Your title for the thread is basically how Dell suggests setting up partitions. ![]() I am not really sure exactly what you are asking. Volume 7 DELLSUPPORT NTFS Partition 1148 MB Healthy Hidden Volume 6 Image NTFS Partition 11 GB Healthy Hidden Volume 5 WINRETOOLS NTFS Partition 462 MB Healthy Hidden Volume 4 ESP FAT32 Partition 500 MB Healthy System Volume 3 O O-PARTITION NTFS Partition 2037 MB Healthy Volume 2 N N-PARTITION NTFS Partition 11 GB Healthy Volume 1 M M-PARTITION NTFS Partition 1126 MB Healthy Volume 0 C SamSung-960 NTFS Partition 203 GB Healthy Boot Volume # Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info The following is my C drive's partitions: Side note - I am using Macrium Reflect v (UEFI) software to do all my backup. I have upgraded my C drive from SSD drive to NVMe drive therefore the Image partition(volume 6) is no longer useful.Įssentially, I just need to keep volume 0 (C drive) and volume 4 (boot partition) I can delete all other partitions, is this correct? I am sure this question has been addressed many time but I just want to make sure. ![]()
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