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Shall I delete the PBR Image?
My Dell XPS 8500 computer came with windows 8 Dell factory image. Last week I decided to install a genuine copy of Windows 8.1 which I have download from Microsoft. Then I decided to install Dell Backup and Recovery. Soon after I discovered that my 238GB Samsung SSD hard drive has a partition named PBR Image with a 32.10GB which is almost full.
1) Should I delete this partition? Do I need it?
2) Is it possible to install Dell Hardware Diagnostic? It is a useful tool as it lets you check whether your hardware is running properly but obviously it comes on with Dell Factory Image. Is there a link from where I can download this tool?
Thanks for your hellp in advance.
DELL-Jesse L
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April 18th, 2016 10:00
Shadow 186,
The PBR image is the Windows 8 restore image. Since you have Windows 8.1 you can delete it. You can click the link below to run the online diagnostics.
Dell Online Diags.
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January 7th, 2021 10:00
Usually when doing a clean windows 10 install I delete all other partitions that isn't windows like OEM recovery and PBR image. This time when I did that it said windows restarted upruptly and messed up the install and will need to be done again.
When I go to reinstall windows it throws an error saying it is missing a device driver. Idk what it's missing but if it would let me in windows I could get whatever drivers it needs. Please help.