Hello,
I have a 2015 XPS 15 with a 512 GB SSD, 16 GB RAM. I intend to set up my system to dual boot Windows 10 and Ubuntu.
I would like to devote 125 GB to a Windows partition, and 50 GB (including 20 GB for Swap) for Ubuntu partitions, leaving approximately 300 GB for a shared Storage partition.
I don't want to freshly install Windows if I can avoid it, and would like to keep Dell's boot diagnostics options. I am however happy to move the recovery and other back ups to a USB media devise, and to merge the Hibernation partition (what I assume the 8 GB OEM one to be) with the main Windows OS partition.
My problem is that I am not entirely sure which partitions are which, and by extension which ones I can safely remove/move around. My hope is that once I've created all the proper back ups I can remove the three partitions after my Windows OS one.
Here is a run-down of the partitions I already have (also an image of Disk Management) along with guesses for what some of them might be.
EFI Partion
500 MB
Healthy (EFI System Partition)
??
40 MB
Healthy (OEM Partition)
WINRETOOLS?
750 MB
Healthy (Recovery Partition)
OS
459.85 GB NTFS
Healthy (Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary Partition)
?? DBR_Boot?
450 MB
Healthy (Recovery Partition)
??
7.26 GB
Healthy (Recovery Partition)
Hibernate?
8.00 GB
Healthy (OEM Partition)
I would only have expected to find EFI, Dell Diagnostics, OS, Hibernate, and Dell Recovery (also System Reserved), so there are two unexplained partitions.
Can anyone help me understand what ones are what?