dbookbinder
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I have a five-year-old Dell Inspiron 5770 and want to free up space on the 256GB SSD. In another thread, I've been getting help with partition issues on drive cloned with Samsung Magician, and it inspired me to clean up this drive, too.
I see that the Dell Recovery partition takes up 11GB and the Dell Diagnostics partition 1GB. I have never used the Dell Diagnostics and will never want to revert back to the factory state. These partitions come after the WinRE partition, as in the attached screenshot. Without messing anything up, can I:
I see that the Dell Recovery partition takes up 11GB and the Dell Diagnostics partition 1GB. I have never used the Dell Diagnostics and will never want to revert back to the factory state. These partitions come after the WinRE partition, as in the attached screenshot. Without messing anything up, can I:
- Delete both Dell partitions (5 and 6)
- Save the winre.wim file from the WinRE partition to the Recovery folder in System32 and then delete that partition
- Extend my C: drive
- Then re-create the WinRE partition after Drive C with DiskGenius and reagentc?
- Windows Build/Version
- Windows 11 Pro, 23H2
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- OS
- Windows 11
- Computer type
- Laptop
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- HP
- CPU
- i7-1355U
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- HP
- Memory
- 64GB
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- Intel IRIS 1GB
- Sound Card
- Realtek (internal)
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Stock and external 27" Acer monitor
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- 1080p
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- NVme 2TB (Windows), 2TB SSD
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- Stock
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- Stock
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- Stock and external HP keyboard
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- Trackpad and external Logitech wired mouse
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- FIOS 1GB
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- Chrome, Edge, Brave
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- Avast
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- 2TB Timetec NVme boot drive, 2TB 3D NAND SSD drive