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Tiger00ds
May 26, 2025Iron Contributor
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 ...
svermaak
May 26, 2025Copper Contributor
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