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August 15th, 2019 04:00

What is the WINRETOOLS partition and do I need it? (repurposed SSD)

I had a Dell XPS 13 that I took the SSD out of to use in my main desktop after the laptop's hinge broke beyond repair. I noticed a partition on it that I'm not sure what the purpose is, or if it is essential in any way called WINRETOOLS. I've already done a fresh install of Windows 10 from a new image (not the Dell recovery image), as well as deleted the DELLSUPPORT and Recovery image partitions as I basically want this to be a completely fresh SSD with none of the unnecessary stuff that came installed on my laptop as I don't want the extra bloatware or drivers. What does the WINRETOOLS partiton do, and will deleting it harm anything? I will also note that I had an issue with Bitlocker requiring the recovery key every boot before I had reinstalled Windows 10, so I used PowerShell to disable Bitlocker on it. Now that I've reinstalled Windows 10, I'm not able to turn Bitlocker on for my C: drive because it returns an error saying I lack the necessary TPM module. I have no idea if this is related, but just wanted to include it incase any important info for the Bitlocker encrytion is stored on WINRETOOLS that would cause my current OS to lock up or something.