Making Windows work with AHCI (instead of RAID)Īrch requires setting disk(s) to AHCI mode and Windows expects them to be in RAID mode. That is it! Now we have nice, clean state of partitions and 462GB ready for installation of Arch Linux. I was not sure if WINRETOOLS and DELLSUPPORT are needed, but I found here that they are partitions created by Dell for recovery, so I decided to delete them too (and did not regret it so far). Selected partition is Microsoft reserved partition. This resulted with the following disk state: What I also did is changed its partition id to match the one of the original partition, which is E3C9E316-0B5C-4DB8-817D-F92DF00215AE (as mentioned here). I was not able to move it in Partition Wizard, but what I did was copy it (using Copy Partition command) from where it is to unallocated space just in front of primary C partition, which I created before that. Hardest part here was moving the Microsoft Reserved Partition (128MB) which is allegedly important for the booting of windows. I also moved the main partition ( C ) to the end of the disk as much as I could. I shrinked main partition ( C ) and also deleted the Image partition (which was about 11GB). I installed and used Mini Partition Wizard on Windows. This way I can later easily take more space from Win if needed for Arch and not worry about having to fiddle with Arch disk space which might mess something up. I decided to reorganize disk in the following way: UEFI partition, Arch partition(s), Win partition(s). testing).įirst I created a recovery USB with Win10 on it so I can reinstall it if smth goes wrong. I wanted to have both Arch and Win -> Arch for everyday work and Win for games and for specific situations (e.g. Luckily, there was a lot of resources online, which allowed me to find solutions for (almost) all of the challenges. However, it turned out to actually be harder and more painful than with Omen! I expected getting Arch Linux to work with XPS will be easier than with Omen.Įspecially since Dell XPS 13 was made with Linux compatibility in mind and I was hoping some of it rubbed off on Dell XPS 15. Since I had a really good experience with my blog post for HP Omen 15 with Arch Linux (it seems a lot of people found it useful!), I decided to do the same thing for Dell XPS 15.
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