I'm on the fence about wiping and installing Windows 7 instead but am determined to give Windows 10 a chance.Īlso, can anybody tell me what is up with the current fad of partitioning drives into more than one partition and giving them different drive letters? What's wrong with one large partition? Personally, I prefer to equate drive letters in Windows to actual physical drives. Does anybody know how to do that? There are lots of guides dealing with similar issues but none of them deal with MSI machines and I keep reading that OEM recoveries are custom made and different. So I would think that if I moved that partition, I would have to update this reference. I assume this will break the MSI recovery because partition 4 is referenced by WinRE as shown by the reagentc command in the attached image. Since I'm installing Linux on a partition at the end of the HDD, I could use GParted to move the 900 MB partition. What I can't understand is why MSI decided to create this 900 MB recovery partition between partitions 3 and 5 (drive C and D)? There is no way for me to combine them into one large usable partition.

Now I would prefer the MSI recovery image partition to be at the start of the drive before the OS partition but it's not a big deal. My SSD now consists of 6 partitions shown in the attached image. Later I will be shrinking it to create two more partitions for a Linux installation. I wiped the HDD and created just one partition for now.

The laptop now has the SSD and a 1 TB HDD (original OS installation). Just installed a 512 GB M.2 2280 SSD in a new GE72 and recovered the OS from a USB backup created with MSI Burn Recovery.

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