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I tried to make ESP (p1) partition to 500 Mb but it does not work. I got a message error:

GNU Parted cannot resize this partition to this size.

Although I had beforehand deleted all unnecessary...

I made a typo error in my previous message.

I meant, p4 & p5 has been created (I think) when I started to boot again on Windows, after having disabled RAID and used instead AHCI.



Ok, so...

If you're making reference to p4 & p5, perhaps it's because I made a mistake when I was trying to install Ubuntu for the first time.
I got an Error Code 141 and to overcome that issue I read that I...

Oldfred, sorry but English is not my first language and I don't fully understand what you're telling me.

I think I've understood that I should keep: ESP (eventually larger) and also p2
But then,...

NAME FSTYPE LABEL MOUNTPOINT SIZE FSUSED MODEL
sda iso9660 Kubuntu 20.04.1 LTS amd64 14.5G USB_Flash_Drive
├─sda1 iso9660 Kubuntu...

Then I'll definitely won't follow this path.


I had thought about doing something like that but I don't know where is that recovery partition located in the drive.
Can anyone tell me where it...

I had read that (GUID key, etc) from another forum, but in fact I thought exactly like you!!!



That sound so logical. Thank you very much CelticWarrior for sharing your thoughts.

You're totally right.
I have actually a backup on a HDD... But I'm thinking to subscribe to an online backup service, because I travel a lot and I don't always that HDD with me.

Any idea how I can extract Windows GUID key and then incorporate it into the official W10 recovery image from Dell?

Thank you for your quick response oldfred. I appreciate.
I already have a new SSD in my brand new laptop so I don't think I'll buy another one just for that.

For you the Windows product key and...

I want to completely wipe out Windows 10 from my brand new Dell laptop (still under warranty) to install Ubuntu.

But in case I have a hardware issue and send it to Dell for repair (after having...