Hi,

anyone has the idea? I'm thinking to upgrade my 7140 to windows 10 as well and most likely I will face the same issue ... 

Also, I would like to know what happen if I perform the "factory recover" AFTER I upgraded to windows 10? Will it fall back to windows 8.1 or 10??? If it fall back to 8.1, is there anyway that I can change it to windows 10 instead of the default 8.1?? 

Many thanks.

Hi,

anyone has the idea? I'm thinking to upgrade my 7140 to windows 10 as well and most likely I will face the same issue ... 

Also, I would like to know what happen if I perform the "factory recover" AFTER I upgraded to windows 10? Will it fall back to windows 8.1 or 10??? If it fall back to 8.1, is there anyway that I can change it to windows 10 instead of the default 8.1?? 

Many thanks.

Can anyone help us?

Thanks

Can anyone help us? Thanks

You will need most of those partitions depending on options plus a Rapid Start or Hibernate partition, if you know what I'm talking about. If you don't, it ain't broke!!!!

If you know what I'm saying then YES you can delete all partitions and when FRESH installing they will be recreated  as needed. No OEM or recovery partitions.

Thanks for the reply.

Yes, I know that when I install Windows in some new unallocated space it creates a default recovery partition.

What I find odd is that I have 3 recovery partitions and one OEM Partition. And I never created any of those. (At least not on purpose)

Probably I can delete all but the OEM (and the EFI partition).

Or can I also delete the OEM?

I doubt that a 40MB partition is enough to recover my device to factory settings...

Thanks

Thanks for the reply. Yes, I know that when I install Windows in some new unallocated space it creates a default recovery partition. What I find odd is that I have 3 recovery partitions and one OEM Partition. And I never created any of those. (At least not on purpose) Probably I can delete all but the OEM (and the EFI partition). Or can I also delete the OEM? I doubt that a 40MB partition is enough to recover my device to factory settings... Thanks

The "OEM" partition would contain Dell stuff, think fingerprint reader driver.

One of the recovery partitions will load and ask you if you want to do something bad like reload the other recovery partition.

The layout for my Venue 11 pro 8gb/256gb 4300Y

Partition 1 1024MB WINRETOOLS   Recovery Partition

Partition 2 500MB EFI System Partition

Partition 3 128MB OEM Reserved Partition

Partition 4 221GB Windows 10 Pro Boot Partition

Partition 5 8200MB IRST Partition (Intel Rapid Start Technology)

Partition 6 7626MB PBR Image Recovery Partition