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May 31st, 2013 21:00
Can I remove OEM or Recovery Partition after I have upgraded from Win 7 Home Edition to Windows 8 Pro?
I purchased a Dell Inspiron 17 inch in December 2012 then in May 2012 the 1 TB hard drive crashed. Originally I had a Recovery Partition, and the OS Partition (C: drive). I used Paragon Partition Manager to break down the OS Partition into C:\, I:\ & R:\ for a total of 4. The new drive that Dell put in came with a OEM Partition, a Recovery Partition and the OS Partition which I split into the C:\ drive and I:\ drive, but it won't let me create another partition for R:\.
Can I delete the OEM partition as it says nothing is used on it, or can I delete the Recovery partition since I have upgraded to Windows 8 Pro and I presume the recovery partition contains the original Windows 7 Home Edition.
You help is appreciated.
DELL-Roshan L
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June 1st, 2013 04:00
Hi Cheerphilly,
Welcome to the Community,
The recovery partition helps you to recover system to factory settings(original Windows version installed on the system). If you have created the recovery discs then you may delete the recovery partition.
Note:Once you delete the recovery partition, only way to restore system to factory settings, would be by using the recovery discs.
Let me know if you have any further query.
Thank You
Cheerphilly
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June 1st, 2013 15:00
Are there files on the recovery partition that are needed on the OS partition that need to be moved. Also the Recovery Partition is shown as active... how do you change that?
Since the OEM partion shows...
Local Disk
Volume letter (*)
Type: Primary
File system: Not formatted (OEM service volume)
Root entries: 512
Sectors per boot: 1
Partition ID: 0xDE Dell OEM
Volume size 39.1 MB
Partition size: 39.1 MB
Active: No
Hidden No
Can it be deleted instead of Recovery?
DELL-Roshan L
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June 4th, 2013 03:00
Hi Cheerphilly,
Files from recovery drive need not be moved to the primary (OS) drive. If you have the Windows DVD you can format the HDD(delete the existing partitions) and reinstall Windows.