Windows 10: New to Windows 10, question about partitions

I just bought a new Dell 2-in-1. Everything is good, but I'm setting up the computer the way I want it to be, not the way the manufacturer and Microsoft thinks everyone should do it. I'm willing to use a non-MS partition tool to do things if necessary.



I see 3 partitions in disk management. The first is the OEM partition. It is has a 529MB capacity, with 75MB free. It has no drive letter, but it does have a label/name. I bought the computer in Korea so the name is stupidly in Korean (nothing else on the computer is in Korean). I want to change the label name to something in English. Am I correct in assuming that this would have no effect on a future OS rollback/recovery? This falls under the category of not necessary, but annoying just because I know it's there.



The second partition listed is the EFI partition. It has a capacity of 100MB with 100MB free space. Is this normal and preferred? I don't understand why it's 100MB, seems kind of arbitrary, but I understand that 100MB is kind of the standard. I really don't know how EFI partitions are used, either. I thought they were just there for boot purposes, so 100MB seems large. Anyway, are there any recommendations for modifying the EFI partition for Windows 10?



The final partition is the primary partition, and looks pretty normal. It says "Bitlocker Encrypted" but when I open BitLocker from the control panel, it tells me BitLocker is "waiting for activation" and there is a link to "turn on bitlocker". So is it really encrypted? I don't want to use BitLocker, I'd rather use a different encryption program.



If anyone has any suggestions for a guy who just doesn't know very much about this stuff, feel free to add them here. Also, you may roast me for my ignorance or stupidity, I promise not to take it too hard.

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W7 Hard drive partition issue

to get rid of that 100 meg windows partition that setup creates for you on a new install on a blank hdd:

- press shift+f10 when on the partition management screen in setup <-- this opens a command prompt
- diskpart <-- start the windows command line partition management tool
- list disk <--- list the installed hdds in this computer for the next step
- select disk 0 <- might have to replace 0 with the number of the correct disk
- clean <-- this will erase all data on the disk you selected one step up- dont use the wrong disk!
- create partition primary <- creates a primary partition taking up all space on the drive, adjust the command if necessary
- exit, exit to exit diskpart and the command prompt
- click refresh in partition manager and select your newly created partition and install to that

 

Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.

 

Move Win7 64 image from a partition NTFS to a new drive

EDIT: After reading your first post again, is there any reason that you would now need GPT? Are you just trying to move the windows install to a new disk or is there a new motherboard involved?

If you are already booting to an NTFS partition, then it makes me wonder if after copying to the new drive, the partition isn't getting marked as Active.

Following the same steps I posted above for startup repair, you can get to a command prompt and use diskpart to see if this is the case.

Code: In the command prompt: diskpart list disk select disk 0 (disk number may be different if you have other disks connected.) list partition select partition 0 (partition number number may vary, but you want to see the boot partition which is the same as your windows partition according to the screenshot on the OP) detail partition (This should have Active: Yes or No. If it says no, since we have the partition selected, you can just use the following command in diskpart) active[/quote]