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Uninstalling old versions of Dell Backup and Recovery/Alienware Respawn and Installing the Latest Version You may now close down the Disk Management. In this you will not have a 500 MB or 750 MB partition but instead will have a 100 MB system reserved partition. If looking at an older Windows 7 system the MBR partition scheme will be used. Windows 8.1 factory settings should never be installed in the MBR partition scheme. Note the GPT partition scheme can handle up to 128 different partitions and hence its of no concern to have more than 4 partitions unlike in the case of MBR. The above 3 partitions are normal for a Windows 8.1 UEFI install.

There will also be a 500 MB EFI partition with a small 750 MB Recovery Partition.

The main OS C: partition (takes up most of the size of the HDD).

The GPT Partition Scheme of the Windows 8.1 Factory Settings should look like the following. Right click the start button and select Disk Management. For Windows 8.0 its recommended that you perform a clean install of Windows 8.1 with Update 2 using the Windows 8.1 Media Creation Tool. The update procedure from Windows 8 to Windows 8.1 is too convoluted and problematic and leads to significantly lowered system performance.

This guide does not support Windows 8 it only supports Windows 8.1.

Checks to Ensure you have a Factory Recovery Partition Once you have Upgraded to Windows 10 you should perform A Clean Reinstall and then you can Setup Dell Backup and Recovery to make a Windows 10 Recovery Partition. Note once Recovery Media is made you should be all set to update to the latest Legacy BIOS/UEFI BIOS and proceed with the Free Upgrade to Windows 10. Restoring from the Internal Recovery Partition.Factory Reset from Recovery Media – SSD Boot Drive and Data HDD Configuration.Factory Reset from Recovery Media – A Single Drive.Uninstalling old versions of Dell Backup and Recovery and Installing the Latest Version.Checks to Ensure you have a Factory Recovery Partition.Instructions are similar for Windows 7 except from recovery from the internal partition.