I have a Dell XPS 13 (running Windows 10) that I got in 2019 and it has never really worked perfectly. It's always tended to be a little slow but lately the machine has gone from annoying-but-tolerable lag to hanging for close to a minute, sometimes more, whenever I open a program. Multiple virus and malware scans have come back negative. I've battled this problem for years and I've reset Windows on multiple occasions, but it's never really helped. I thought I would try doing a clean install from a USB drive next to see if that speeds things up, but I noticed that my hard drive has partitions that I don't recognize. The partitions are the following:
Drive 0 Partition 1: ESP - type System
Drive 0 Partition 2: - type MSR (Reserved)
Drive 0 Partition 3: OS - type Primary
Drive 0 Partition 4: WINRETOOLS - type Recovery
Drive 0 Partition 5: Image - type Recovery
I figured the OS and recovery partitions are the ones I want to format and erase during a reinstall, but what about the other two? What should I do with the ESP and MSR partitions? Do I leave these alone or is it safe to wipe everything and start fresh?
Drive 0 Partition 1: ESP - type System
Drive 0 Partition 2: - type MSR (Reserved)
Drive 0 Partition 3: OS - type Primary
Drive 0 Partition 4: WINRETOOLS - type Recovery
Drive 0 Partition 5: Image - type Recovery
I figured the OS and recovery partitions are the ones I want to format and erase during a reinstall, but what about the other two? What should I do with the ESP and MSR partitions? Do I leave these alone or is it safe to wipe everything and start fresh?