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Tiger00ds
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May 26, 2025

Partition question on clean install for a dell laptop

I've got a Dell Inspiron 15 5510 laptop purchased December 2021 that came with Windows 10. I did one Windows 10 clean install about 2 years ago. Right now I want to do a Windows 11 clean install and I've got some questions about deleting old partitions during the install. I ran the Disk Management utility and attached a screenshot.

Any idea why there are two Recovery partitions?

 

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    Nobel_Baynes
    Iron Contributor
    May 27, 2025

    Yeah, delete all partitions during a clean install. Windows 11 will automatically create the necessary ones.

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    svermaak
    Copper Contributor
    May 26, 2025

    One is probably from Dell and the other was likely created during your clean Windows 10 install. When Windows installs fresh and detects there's no suitable recovery partition (or doesn’t want to reuse an OEM one), it will create a new, larger one to support 

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