Step 2 - Type Diskpart and press enter to launch the Diskpart utility. Right-click the first search result and select Run as Administrator to launch CMD as the admin. Step 1 - On your Windows laptop/PC, open the Cortana search box and type CMD. I don't know if the OEM partition for example could be removed without causing damage so that I can install Ubuntu. Anyhow, here’s how you can delete an OEM partition via CMD with Diskaprt.

Now as I understand it, I will not be able to install Ubuntu with 4 (primary?) partitions already on my system. I also shrunk my Boot partition and created some unallocated space to install Ubuntu in. Since the Disk Management tool in Windows won’t let you merge or delete the OEM partition, you can just use the built-in command-line tool known as Diskpart. It also has 4 partitions: 1 System partition (I think Windows creates this upon installation automatically), 1 Boot partition on which the main part of my OS resides, one Recover partition (20GB) and one OEM partition (I think this might have been created by the manuacturer of the HDD). Thus, in this guide, you will be guided on how you can merge as well as delete an OEM partition in your Windows 10 computer. The computer is an all-in-one and therefore came preassembled and preinstalled with the OS. I currently have a machine running Windows 7 on it and would like to set up a dual boot with Ubuntu (14.03).

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