How to identify partitions in Windows Disk Management





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I recently added linux debian to my windows 10 laptop.



I installed the version without firmware, and intend to redo the installation using the firmware inclusive version.



I therefore need to identify the linux partitions on the disk an delete them.



Are partition 2, OS(C:) and Recovery, the windows partitions and numbers 5 and 6 linux?



Thanks



Partition info from Windows disk management
Volume------------------File System------------Status
Disk 0 partition 2 ----------------------------Healthy (EFI System Partition)
Disk 0 partition 5-----------------------------Healthy (Primary Partition)
Disk 0 partition 6-----------------------------Healthy (Primary Partition)
OS(C:)---------------------NTFS----------------Healthy(Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary Partition)
Recovery-------------------NTFS----------------Healthy (OEM Partition)


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    But if you succesfully installed the OS, can't you just enable non-free repositories and apt install firmware-this firmware-that

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    Feb 6 at 12:19






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    Impossible to make that determination based on the information you provide. Please provide a link to a screenshot of Disk Management showing the partitions and the type of filesystem being used. We will be able to determine your disk layout from that screenshot.

    – Ramhound
    Feb 6 at 12:20













  • Disc Management will allow you to make get an accurate comparison with the Disks or gparted map from a Live Boot disc.

    – AFH
    Feb 6 at 12:40











  • @grawity currently, I believe that redoing the installation correctly with the firmware version of debian is simpler than navigating the installation of everything in pieces via usb. But overall, you aren't wrong.

    – Hugh_Kelley
    Feb 6 at 13:30











  • and edited to include a pic. When you say filesystem, is that NTFS for instance?

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    Feb 6 at 13:33


















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I recently added linux debian to my windows 10 laptop.



I installed the version without firmware, and intend to redo the installation using the firmware inclusive version.



I therefore need to identify the linux partitions on the disk an delete them.



Are partition 2, OS(C:) and Recovery, the windows partitions and numbers 5 and 6 linux?



Thanks



Partition info from Windows disk management
Volume------------------File System------------Status
Disk 0 partition 2 ----------------------------Healthy (EFI System Partition)
Disk 0 partition 5-----------------------------Healthy (Primary Partition)
Disk 0 partition 6-----------------------------Healthy (Primary Partition)
OS(C:)---------------------NTFS----------------Healthy(Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary Partition)
Recovery-------------------NTFS----------------Healthy (OEM Partition)


enter image description here










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  • 3





    But if you succesfully installed the OS, can't you just enable non-free repositories and apt install firmware-this firmware-that

    – grawity
    Feb 6 at 12:19






  • 2





    Impossible to make that determination based on the information you provide. Please provide a link to a screenshot of Disk Management showing the partitions and the type of filesystem being used. We will be able to determine your disk layout from that screenshot.

    – Ramhound
    Feb 6 at 12:20













  • Disc Management will allow you to make get an accurate comparison with the Disks or gparted map from a Live Boot disc.

    – AFH
    Feb 6 at 12:40











  • @grawity currently, I believe that redoing the installation correctly with the firmware version of debian is simpler than navigating the installation of everything in pieces via usb. But overall, you aren't wrong.

    – Hugh_Kelley
    Feb 6 at 13:30











  • and edited to include a pic. When you say filesystem, is that NTFS for instance?

    – Hugh_Kelley
    Feb 6 at 13:33














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I recently added linux debian to my windows 10 laptop.



I installed the version without firmware, and intend to redo the installation using the firmware inclusive version.



I therefore need to identify the linux partitions on the disk an delete them.



Are partition 2, OS(C:) and Recovery, the windows partitions and numbers 5 and 6 linux?



Thanks



Partition info from Windows disk management
Volume------------------File System------------Status
Disk 0 partition 2 ----------------------------Healthy (EFI System Partition)
Disk 0 partition 5-----------------------------Healthy (Primary Partition)
Disk 0 partition 6-----------------------------Healthy (Primary Partition)
OS(C:)---------------------NTFS----------------Healthy(Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary Partition)
Recovery-------------------NTFS----------------Healthy (OEM Partition)


enter image description here










share|improve this question
















I recently added linux debian to my windows 10 laptop.



I installed the version without firmware, and intend to redo the installation using the firmware inclusive version.



I therefore need to identify the linux partitions on the disk an delete them.



Are partition 2, OS(C:) and Recovery, the windows partitions and numbers 5 and 6 linux?



Thanks



Partition info from Windows disk management
Volume------------------File System------------Status
Disk 0 partition 2 ----------------------------Healthy (EFI System Partition)
Disk 0 partition 5-----------------------------Healthy (Primary Partition)
Disk 0 partition 6-----------------------------Healthy (Primary Partition)
OS(C:)---------------------NTFS----------------Healthy(Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary Partition)
Recovery-------------------NTFS----------------Healthy (OEM Partition)


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  • 3





    But if you succesfully installed the OS, can't you just enable non-free repositories and apt install firmware-this firmware-that

    – grawity
    Feb 6 at 12:19






  • 2





    Impossible to make that determination based on the information you provide. Please provide a link to a screenshot of Disk Management showing the partitions and the type of filesystem being used. We will be able to determine your disk layout from that screenshot.

    – Ramhound
    Feb 6 at 12:20













  • Disc Management will allow you to make get an accurate comparison with the Disks or gparted map from a Live Boot disc.

    – AFH
    Feb 6 at 12:40











  • @grawity currently, I believe that redoing the installation correctly with the firmware version of debian is simpler than navigating the installation of everything in pieces via usb. But overall, you aren't wrong.

    – Hugh_Kelley
    Feb 6 at 13:30











  • and edited to include a pic. When you say filesystem, is that NTFS for instance?

    – Hugh_Kelley
    Feb 6 at 13:33














  • 3





    But if you succesfully installed the OS, can't you just enable non-free repositories and apt install firmware-this firmware-that

    – grawity
    Feb 6 at 12:19






  • 2





    Impossible to make that determination based on the information you provide. Please provide a link to a screenshot of Disk Management showing the partitions and the type of filesystem being used. We will be able to determine your disk layout from that screenshot.

    – Ramhound
    Feb 6 at 12:20













  • Disc Management will allow you to make get an accurate comparison with the Disks or gparted map from a Live Boot disc.

    – AFH
    Feb 6 at 12:40











  • @grawity currently, I believe that redoing the installation correctly with the firmware version of debian is simpler than navigating the installation of everything in pieces via usb. But overall, you aren't wrong.

    – Hugh_Kelley
    Feb 6 at 13:30











  • and edited to include a pic. When you say filesystem, is that NTFS for instance?

    – Hugh_Kelley
    Feb 6 at 13:33








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But if you succesfully installed the OS, can't you just enable non-free repositories and apt install firmware-this firmware-that

– grawity
Feb 6 at 12:19





But if you succesfully installed the OS, can't you just enable non-free repositories and apt install firmware-this firmware-that

– grawity
Feb 6 at 12:19




2




2





Impossible to make that determination based on the information you provide. Please provide a link to a screenshot of Disk Management showing the partitions and the type of filesystem being used. We will be able to determine your disk layout from that screenshot.

– Ramhound
Feb 6 at 12:20







Impossible to make that determination based on the information you provide. Please provide a link to a screenshot of Disk Management showing the partitions and the type of filesystem being used. We will be able to determine your disk layout from that screenshot.

– Ramhound
Feb 6 at 12:20















Disc Management will allow you to make get an accurate comparison with the Disks or gparted map from a Live Boot disc.

– AFH
Feb 6 at 12:40





Disc Management will allow you to make get an accurate comparison with the Disks or gparted map from a Live Boot disc.

– AFH
Feb 6 at 12:40













@grawity currently, I believe that redoing the installation correctly with the firmware version of debian is simpler than navigating the installation of everything in pieces via usb. But overall, you aren't wrong.

– Hugh_Kelley
Feb 6 at 13:30





@grawity currently, I believe that redoing the installation correctly with the firmware version of debian is simpler than navigating the installation of everything in pieces via usb. But overall, you aren't wrong.

– Hugh_Kelley
Feb 6 at 13:30













and edited to include a pic. When you say filesystem, is that NTFS for instance?

– Hugh_Kelley
Feb 6 at 13:33





and edited to include a pic. When you say filesystem, is that NTFS for instance?

– Hugh_Kelley
Feb 6 at 13:33










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Disk Management will not tell you if these partitions are Linux (although from your description 5 and 6 almost certainly are).



All it can tell you is that the partitions exist and the filesystem type (for example EXT4 or whatever you formatted them) is not recognized by Windows while it's own filesystem NTFS is.



The easiest way to make sure is to go to diskpart from command prompt. Select the disk you are interested in, then the select the partition. Next show detail of the selected partition to find the Type.



PS C:WINDOWSsystem32> diskpart

Microsoft DiskPart version 10.0.17763.1

Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.
On computer: X201

DISKPART> select disk 2

Disk 2 is now the selected disk.

DISKPART> select partition 7

Partition 7 is now the selected partition.

DISKPART> detail partition

Partition 7
Type : 0fc63daf-8483-4772-8e79-3d69d8477de4
Hidden : Yes
Required: No
Attrib : 0000000000000000
Offset in Bytes: 937397506048

There is no volume associated with this partition.

DISKPART> exit


Here the type is 0fc63daf-8483-4772-8e79-3d69d8477de4 which if you check the Wikipedia GUID partition table page it will tell you it is Linux.



Note that if you had a MBR not GPT disk then diskpart would show a 2 digit code like this for the Type rather than the long GUID above :



DISKPART> detail partition

Partition 4
Type : 83
Hidden: Yes
Active: Yes
Offset in Bytes: 937397506048


In this case the code can be checked in Wikipedia Partition type page (here 83 is Linux)



Note that you will also see another small partition (Microsoft Reserved Partition, usually 16MB) as partition 3 just before the C volume. This partition is hidden in Disk Management but is shown in diskpart.






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    From the screenshots I would say yes 5 & 6 are what you think they are (Linux root and swap). Can you access these partitions in any other way to see what is on them?




    • Can you boot into Debian and check your disk management utility from there.

    • Assign a drive letter to the existing 5 & 6 partitions and view them in the file explorer.






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      Disk Management will not tell you if these partitions are Linux (although from your description 5 and 6 almost certainly are).



      All it can tell you is that the partitions exist and the filesystem type (for example EXT4 or whatever you formatted them) is not recognized by Windows while it's own filesystem NTFS is.



      The easiest way to make sure is to go to diskpart from command prompt. Select the disk you are interested in, then the select the partition. Next show detail of the selected partition to find the Type.



      PS C:WINDOWSsystem32> diskpart

      Microsoft DiskPart version 10.0.17763.1

      Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.
      On computer: X201

      DISKPART> select disk 2

      Disk 2 is now the selected disk.

      DISKPART> select partition 7

      Partition 7 is now the selected partition.

      DISKPART> detail partition

      Partition 7
      Type : 0fc63daf-8483-4772-8e79-3d69d8477de4
      Hidden : Yes
      Required: No
      Attrib : 0000000000000000
      Offset in Bytes: 937397506048

      There is no volume associated with this partition.

      DISKPART> exit


      Here the type is 0fc63daf-8483-4772-8e79-3d69d8477de4 which if you check the Wikipedia GUID partition table page it will tell you it is Linux.



      Note that if you had a MBR not GPT disk then diskpart would show a 2 digit code like this for the Type rather than the long GUID above :



      DISKPART> detail partition

      Partition 4
      Type : 83
      Hidden: Yes
      Active: Yes
      Offset in Bytes: 937397506048


      In this case the code can be checked in Wikipedia Partition type page (here 83 is Linux)



      Note that you will also see another small partition (Microsoft Reserved Partition, usually 16MB) as partition 3 just before the C volume. This partition is hidden in Disk Management but is shown in diskpart.






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        Disk Management will not tell you if these partitions are Linux (although from your description 5 and 6 almost certainly are).



        All it can tell you is that the partitions exist and the filesystem type (for example EXT4 or whatever you formatted them) is not recognized by Windows while it's own filesystem NTFS is.



        The easiest way to make sure is to go to diskpart from command prompt. Select the disk you are interested in, then the select the partition. Next show detail of the selected partition to find the Type.



        PS C:WINDOWSsystem32> diskpart

        Microsoft DiskPart version 10.0.17763.1

        Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.
        On computer: X201

        DISKPART> select disk 2

        Disk 2 is now the selected disk.

        DISKPART> select partition 7

        Partition 7 is now the selected partition.

        DISKPART> detail partition

        Partition 7
        Type : 0fc63daf-8483-4772-8e79-3d69d8477de4
        Hidden : Yes
        Required: No
        Attrib : 0000000000000000
        Offset in Bytes: 937397506048

        There is no volume associated with this partition.

        DISKPART> exit


        Here the type is 0fc63daf-8483-4772-8e79-3d69d8477de4 which if you check the Wikipedia GUID partition table page it will tell you it is Linux.



        Note that if you had a MBR not GPT disk then diskpart would show a 2 digit code like this for the Type rather than the long GUID above :



        DISKPART> detail partition

        Partition 4
        Type : 83
        Hidden: Yes
        Active: Yes
        Offset in Bytes: 937397506048


        In this case the code can be checked in Wikipedia Partition type page (here 83 is Linux)



        Note that you will also see another small partition (Microsoft Reserved Partition, usually 16MB) as partition 3 just before the C volume. This partition is hidden in Disk Management but is shown in diskpart.






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          Disk Management will not tell you if these partitions are Linux (although from your description 5 and 6 almost certainly are).



          All it can tell you is that the partitions exist and the filesystem type (for example EXT4 or whatever you formatted them) is not recognized by Windows while it's own filesystem NTFS is.



          The easiest way to make sure is to go to diskpart from command prompt. Select the disk you are interested in, then the select the partition. Next show detail of the selected partition to find the Type.



          PS C:WINDOWSsystem32> diskpart

          Microsoft DiskPart version 10.0.17763.1

          Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.
          On computer: X201

          DISKPART> select disk 2

          Disk 2 is now the selected disk.

          DISKPART> select partition 7

          Partition 7 is now the selected partition.

          DISKPART> detail partition

          Partition 7
          Type : 0fc63daf-8483-4772-8e79-3d69d8477de4
          Hidden : Yes
          Required: No
          Attrib : 0000000000000000
          Offset in Bytes: 937397506048

          There is no volume associated with this partition.

          DISKPART> exit


          Here the type is 0fc63daf-8483-4772-8e79-3d69d8477de4 which if you check the Wikipedia GUID partition table page it will tell you it is Linux.



          Note that if you had a MBR not GPT disk then diskpart would show a 2 digit code like this for the Type rather than the long GUID above :



          DISKPART> detail partition

          Partition 4
          Type : 83
          Hidden: Yes
          Active: Yes
          Offset in Bytes: 937397506048


          In this case the code can be checked in Wikipedia Partition type page (here 83 is Linux)



          Note that you will also see another small partition (Microsoft Reserved Partition, usually 16MB) as partition 3 just before the C volume. This partition is hidden in Disk Management but is shown in diskpart.






          share|improve this answer















          Disk Management will not tell you if these partitions are Linux (although from your description 5 and 6 almost certainly are).



          All it can tell you is that the partitions exist and the filesystem type (for example EXT4 or whatever you formatted them) is not recognized by Windows while it's own filesystem NTFS is.



          The easiest way to make sure is to go to diskpart from command prompt. Select the disk you are interested in, then the select the partition. Next show detail of the selected partition to find the Type.



          PS C:WINDOWSsystem32> diskpart

          Microsoft DiskPart version 10.0.17763.1

          Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.
          On computer: X201

          DISKPART> select disk 2

          Disk 2 is now the selected disk.

          DISKPART> select partition 7

          Partition 7 is now the selected partition.

          DISKPART> detail partition

          Partition 7
          Type : 0fc63daf-8483-4772-8e79-3d69d8477de4
          Hidden : Yes
          Required: No
          Attrib : 0000000000000000
          Offset in Bytes: 937397506048

          There is no volume associated with this partition.

          DISKPART> exit


          Here the type is 0fc63daf-8483-4772-8e79-3d69d8477de4 which if you check the Wikipedia GUID partition table page it will tell you it is Linux.



          Note that if you had a MBR not GPT disk then diskpart would show a 2 digit code like this for the Type rather than the long GUID above :



          DISKPART> detail partition

          Partition 4
          Type : 83
          Hidden: Yes
          Active: Yes
          Offset in Bytes: 937397506048


          In this case the code can be checked in Wikipedia Partition type page (here 83 is Linux)



          Note that you will also see another small partition (Microsoft Reserved Partition, usually 16MB) as partition 3 just before the C volume. This partition is hidden in Disk Management but is shown in diskpart.







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              From the screenshots I would say yes 5 & 6 are what you think they are (Linux root and swap). Can you access these partitions in any other way to see what is on them?




              • Can you boot into Debian and check your disk management utility from there.

              • Assign a drive letter to the existing 5 & 6 partitions and view them in the file explorer.






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                From the screenshots I would say yes 5 & 6 are what you think they are (Linux root and swap). Can you access these partitions in any other way to see what is on them?




                • Can you boot into Debian and check your disk management utility from there.

                • Assign a drive letter to the existing 5 & 6 partitions and view them in the file explorer.






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                  From the screenshots I would say yes 5 & 6 are what you think they are (Linux root and swap). Can you access these partitions in any other way to see what is on them?




                  • Can you boot into Debian and check your disk management utility from there.

                  • Assign a drive letter to the existing 5 & 6 partitions and view them in the file explorer.






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                  From the screenshots I would say yes 5 & 6 are what you think they are (Linux root and swap). Can you access these partitions in any other way to see what is on them?




                  • Can you boot into Debian and check your disk management utility from there.

                  • Assign a drive letter to the existing 5 & 6 partitions and view them in the file explorer.







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