Hi,
I have an AlienWare 17 R2 laptop that I bought from Dell about 1-1/2 years ago. It came with Windows 7 Professional pre-installed. The hard drive has the following three primary partitions:
- OEM Partition 39 MB
- Recovery 10.20 GB
- OS (C:) - 921.28 GB <= Windows 7 is installed on this partition
I would like to setup this computer for a multi-boot configuration that would give me the following OS choices:
- Windows 7 (my existing installation)
- Windows 10
- Windows XP
I plan on using BootIT Bare Metal by Terabyte unlimited to help me create my multi-boot configuration. I would like for my each of my three Windows versions to be on a dedicated primary partition, and I would like to keep my number of primary partitions to the typical PC/Windows limit of four. To make this possible, I would like to delete the OEM partition and the Recovery Partition.
Can anyone tell me, considering I have a standard "Dell" or "Alienware" configuration, can I simply delete these partitions with no adverse side effects? Or will deleting either of these break my Windows 7 installation?
Thanks in advance,
Paul