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Blowing Away the Recovery Partition...Advice?
'Daddy[_3_ Wrote: ;896444']I recently received a new Studio XPS 8100. I opted to keep the C: drive pretty much as-is, and uninstalled most of the smell-ware that Dell adds. I'd really like to delete the extra two partitions that contain Dell's diagnostics and the factory image. My first inclination was to simply use the Diskpart command, but now I'm not so sure. My problem is: I don't really understand the boot process that well. I believe Dell customizes the Master Boot Record to make it possible to access those hidden partitions (with the right key combination.) If I delete the extra partitions, do I risk making my computer unbootable? Daddy Hello Daddy[_3_], It depends on the version of Windows 7 that you have. As a good rule of thumb a minimum of 30GB is recommended for Windows 7 *(possibly more for Windows Ultimate). http://tinyurl.com/obma6q If you want to run Windows 7 on your PC, here's what it requires: 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor 1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit) 16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit) DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver Some Additioinal information with regard to the "system reserved" Partition in Windows 7 setup: If you do not want the 'System Reserved' partition to be created and existed, the best way is to stop Windows 7 installation process to create the partition when installing Windows 7. In Windows 7, the feature (100 MB partition to store WinRE files) is installed on all computers if the OS is installed on hard disk with single partition scheme, or unallocated space (space which not yet been partitioned) on the hard disk drive. Thus in order to skip or avoid the 100M partition to be automatically created during installation, here’s a few rules to follow when choosing where to install Windows 7 to: 1. Do not install Windows 7 to a hard disk that not yet been partitioned or to unallocated space (When install Windows 7 to unallocated space, no warning pop-up or confirmation is asked, and setup will straight away and directly create partition 200 MB of disk space as special partition without notification). 2. If possible, try to create all the necessary partition(s) and format the partition(s) before attempting to install Windows 7. 3. If you’re installing Windows 7 into a new hard disk, or a blank hard disk with no partition defined yet, or if you must delete all existing partitions to start afresh, chose Drive options (advanced). Delete (if applicable) unwanted partitions. Then, click New to create the single partition or multiple partitions according to your own preference. When prompted with dialog box saying “To ensure that all Windows features work correctly, Windows might create additional partitions for system files”, click on Cancel button. Optionally, to be double confirm, Format the partition before selecting it to install Windows 7 Finally, if you want to do some research; there are also some great articles, instructional videos and such to help with your Windows 7, installation, migration and upgrade decisions located at our Springboard site: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/default.aspx Thanks again and good luck! John M. Microsoft Windows Client Support -- Windows7Guy |
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Blowing Away the Recovery Partition...Advice?
Windows7Guy wrote:
'Daddy[_3_ Wrote: ;896444']I recently received a new Studio XPS 8100. I opted to keep the C: drive pretty much as-is, and uninstalled most of the smell-ware that Dell adds. I'd really like to delete the extra two partitions that contain Dell's diagnostics and the factory image. My first inclination was to simply use the Diskpart command, but now I'm not so sure. My problem is: I don't really understand the boot process that well. I believe Dell customizes the Master Boot Record to make it possible to access those hidden partitions (with the right key combination.) If I delete the extra partitions, do I risk making my computer unbootable? Daddy Hello Daddy[_3_], It depends on the version of Windows 7 that you have.snip John M. Microsoft Windows Client Support You are clueless. Daddy |
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Blowing Away the Recovery Partition...Advice?
Hey Guys! Hope you don't mind if I revive this thread. Coincidentally, like the OP, I also have a new XPS 8100 and a similar issue with wanting to delete the recovery partition. In my case, since this is a new cloned drive, and because I've added/resized partitions, the recovery partition no longer functions, except to allow Wiin7 to boot. Brian K- Thanks for outlining the steps to remove it. Honestly, the process seems a little intimidating to me, but I may give it a try. I have Acronis backups of both C and the recovery partition. Brian, if you have any suggestions for a less "advanced" method of doing this, I'd be interested. Thanks! Rob |
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Blowing Away the Recovery Partition...Advice?
Rob,
I've been away and I don't have the rest of the thread. Only your post. What did I say about removing the recovery partition? Maybe I can fine tune it. I assume you have Win7 with a recovery partition that shows as Active, System, in Disk Management. |
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Blowing Away the Recovery Partition...Advice?
Rob, OK, I've seen the thread. This summarizes it... http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/kb/article.php?id=409 Just regard your recovery partition as the SRP. There is another way which may seem easier. From BING, just delete the recovery partition. When you try to boot Win7 you will see BootMGR is missing. Fix it with.... http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/kb/article.php?id=411 |
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Blowing Away the Recovery Partition...Advice?
There is another way which may seem easier. From BING, just delete the recovery partition. When you try to boot Win7 you will see BootMGR is missing. I omitted a step. While in BING, delete the recovery partition and set Win7 Active. |
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