My Dell laptop is running Windows 8.1 x64 with UEFI boot. I've been having problems with the Dell Backup & Recovery Utility showing an error due to a corrupted recovery partition. I've uninstalled and reinstalled the program but this results in additional partitions being created on the hard drive! I now have 10 partitions on the hard drive ( mostly small) - see the enclosed DISKPART and Paragon Backup reports
Is there a way of reconfiguring the partitions on the hard drive to the configuration of a standard Dell Windows 8 installation without having to wipe the disk and reinstall everything? I have Paragon Partition Manager and Paragon Backup in addition to using the Microsoft utilities (DISKPART). Note the laptop operates normally despite the extra partitions.
DISKPART Report:
Partition ### Type Size Offset
------------- ---------------- ------- -------
Partition 1 System 500 MB 1024 KB
Partition 2 OEM 40 MB 501 MB
Partition 3 Reserved 128 MB 541 MB
Partition 4 Recovery 750 MB 669 MB
Partition 5 Primary 911 GB 1419 MB
Partition 10 Recovery 900 MB 913 GB
Partition 9 Recovery 900 MB 913 GB
Partition 6 Recovery 450 MB 914 GB
Partition 7 Recovery 8 GB 915 GB
Partition 8 OEM 8 GB 923 GB
