XPS 13 Partitions

[Guest]

I was messing with my XPS 13 and noticed that there are 6 drive partitions.  I was wondering if it was safe to delete any of them, or if they have important things on them.

[WinNut]

Take a screenshot of Disk Management.

[Kobrastachka]

I think their windows reserver drives

[Guest]

Take a screenshot of Disk Management.

I'm in the process of downgrading to Windows 8, so I can't really take a screenshot. 

 

Partition 1: ESP - 500 MB, 470 MB - System

Partition 2: DIAGS - 40 MB, 35 MB - OEM (Reserved)

Partition 3: -128 MB, 128 MB - MSR (Reserved)

Partition 4: WINRETOOLS - 490 MB, 161 MB - Recovery

Partition 5: - 103 GB, 103 GB- Primary

Partition 6: PBR Image - 6 GB, 13 MB - Recovery

Partition 7: - 8.0 GB, 8.0 GB - OEM (Reserved)

[WinNut]

 

I'm in the process of downgrading to Windows 8, so I can't really take a screenshot. 

 

Partition 1: ESP - 500 MB, 470 MB - System

Partition 2: DIAGS - 40 MB, 35 MB - OEM (Reserved)

Partition 3: -128 MB, 128 MB - MSR (Reserved)

Partition 4: WINRETOOLS - 490 MB, 161 MB - Recovery

Partition 5: - 103 GB, 103 GB- Primary

Partition 6: PBR Image - 6 GB, 13 MB - Recovery

Partition 7: - 8.0 GB, 8.0 GB - OEM (Reserved)

Don't mess with them, those are boot and recovery partitions.

[Guest]

 

 

 

Don't mess with them, those are boot and recovery partitions.

 

 

Okay.  One more thing, when I try to install Win 8 to the Primary drive, it says "Windows cannot be instaled to this disk.  The selected disk is of the GPT partition style."  What can I do to fix this?

 

[Norman_the_Owl]

 

 

 

Don't mess with them, those are boot and recovery partitions.

 

As in, return to factory state?

Couldn't you just take that stuff onto a usb drive or something?

[GoodBytes]

Okay.  One more thing, when I try to install Win 8 to the Primary drive, it says "Windows cannot be instaled to this disk.  The selected disk is of the GPT partition style."  What can I do to fix this?

If you want to re-install Windows 8, simply go under PC Settings > Update and Recovery > Recovery > Remove everything and reinstall Windows.

[Guest]

If you want to re-install Windows 8, simply go under PC Settings > Update and Recovery > Recovery > Remove everything and reinstall Windows.

The problem is it won't let me boot into Windows because of that.  I just went ahead and installed Ubuntu, and am going to try to fix things from there.

[Andrewf]

If it's a laptop and it looks like that way as soon as you get it, don't mess with any of it. It will mess something, or cause something to not work properly, such as "smartcache" or whatever they want to name every little thing.

[GoodBytes]

The problem is it won't let me boot into Windows because of that.  I just went ahead and installed Ubuntu, and am going to try to fix things from there.

Did you change anything the UEFI of the system? I have a feeling you enabled legacy mode (CSM), so Windows thinks that your system has the old BIOS system, and not the new modern UEFI recently introduced.

Did you system original came with Windows 7 or 8?