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Will Acronis TI 2015..............

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Allow me to copy just the hidden Dell partition to my new SSD, so I can run a clean install of the os?

 

thanks, Bill

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Bill, welcome to these user forums.

The simple answer is yes, ATIH 2015 will allow you to backup your hidden Dell partition and restore this to your new SSD, but...  this may not be quite as simple as it sounds if you are wanting to do a factory reset / reinstallation from that Dell partition.

If the hidden Dell partition is the Dell diagnostics partition, then you would also need to also restore the MBR and Track 0 (backed up from the original drive) in order to allow access to that partition, assuming that you are doing a clean install of Windows from DVD or other install media.

Steve,

Thanks for the quick reply. Apologies for the rather short opening question. altho I do have OEM Dell CD's, I was wanting to install from the hidden partition if at all possible.

 

I am going for it.... thanks again

 

Bill