The OEM partition contains the Dell diagnostics -- it's used by pressing F12 at powerup.
If you're going to repartition the disc, it's best to leave that one. Once you do the repartitioning, the recovery partition will be useless - so you can sacrifice that.
Be sure you've prepared a set of recovery DVDs before you do that, though:
My interesting situation is that on my daughter's XPS 13, with 120 GB of solid state HD, the oem partiion is 39 Gbytes, not 100 Mbytes. Is this a setup error? 1/3 of the memory is useless, and at the price for it, that's not very positive. Any idea how to treat this? Reformat with a clean recovery?
Oops! Old age has screwed up my vision. I was confused by the length of the blue bars in the management app. OEM is only 39 MBytes. Only problem is the hibernate partition is 8 gig, 0% used, and the recovery partition is 18.25 gig, 56% used. I think I can shrink the latter and remove the hibernate part. Owner says with solid state drive, no need to hibernate. So, only 15% of the drive (8 gig + ~10 gig from shrinking recovery part).
I've read that I might have to give the partitions drive letters. That sound right??
ejn63
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November 26th, 2011 11:00
The OEM partition contains the Dell diagnostics -- it's used by pressing F12 at powerup.
If you're going to repartition the disc, it's best to leave that one. Once you do the repartitioning, the recovery partition will be useless - so you can sacrifice that.
Be sure you've prepared a set of recovery DVDs before you do that, though:
en.community.dell.com/.../request-a-backup-cd-from-dell.aspx
krolk
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THX a lot!
russmand
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My interesting situation is that on my daughter's XPS 13, with 120 GB of solid state HD, the oem partiion is 39 Gbytes, not 100 Mbytes. Is this a setup error? 1/3 of the memory is useless, and at the price for it, that's not very positive. Any idea how to treat this? Reformat with a clean recovery?
russmand
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March 26th, 2012 19:00
Oops! Old age has screwed up my vision. I was confused by the length of the blue bars in the management app. OEM is only 39 MBytes. Only problem is the hibernate partition is 8 gig, 0% used, and the recovery partition is 18.25 gig, 56% used. I think I can shrink the latter and remove the hibernate part. Owner says with solid state drive, no need to hibernate. So, only 15% of the drive (8 gig + ~10 gig from shrinking recovery part).
I've read that I might have to give the partitions drive letters. That sound right??