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September 8th, 2014 07:00
Dell five primary partitions, help?
I have the Dell Inspiron i3531-1200BK 15.6-Inch Laptop.
I am trying to dualboot the laptop with Ubuntu and so I wanted to create a new partition.
So far, I used the dell backup and recovery to make a rescue usb and shrunk the volume of the c drive using disk management. But I came across something I never have before. 5 primary partitions, which I thought was impossible?
Here is a screenshot. I don't understand how there can be five primary partitions and according to DISKPART there are 6. Anyway, if I were to delete the recovery partition to install linux would that make the dell backup and restore usb worthless? If so, which partition can I remove?
Thanks in advance.
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September 8th, 2014 09:00
This is a GPT-partitioned disc, which doesn't have the four-primary-partition limit of an MBR disc.
If you want to install Linux without a ground-up rebuild, you will need a distro that supports GPT (in order to change to MBR, a ground-up reinstall will be required).
The Linux community for your distro should have details on running that version side by side with a GPT Windows installation.
DO NOT make changes other than to the Dell recovery partition (the one containing the system image). Remember that part of the bootup files for a UEFI system are stored on the hard drive in some of these partitions, and removing them will render the system unbootable.