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January 31st, 2021 01:00
SupportAssist - can you reinstall Windows to a particular partition, without erasing the entire drive?
I have a Dell XPS 13 that is dual boot with Linux and Windows. Recently Windows crashed, automatic recovery failed. After trying a few things, I decided just to reformat the Windows partition to reinstall since I only use it for games. I created a USB SupportAssist drive, but it sounds like resetting the system will wipe the entire hard drive clean. That makes me nervous about continuing. Is there a step along the way to tell the installation to go to a particular partition and leave the rest alone?
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speedstep
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February 6th, 2021 10:00
You are well past doing anything leaving the drive alone.
What kind of media is the drive?
Is it NVME stick?
Is it a physical hard drive or ssd?
How you recover depends on what that is.
You use a USB dock to recover after replacing the storage.
There is no panacea that is for all models all years all os everything cure all.
Without basic information like
MODEL
XPS 13 (7390) is a model
XPS 13 is not
DRIVE NVME SATA NVME PCI-E SSD HDD ?
OS Version WIN7 WIN8 WIN10?
etc
there is no help. You cannot do what you want to because thats NEVER an option at this point of your crash.