Question #2: If the answer to Question #1 is "yes", my second question is then: Is it really that important to have the Dell Diagnostics tool? I don't recall ever using it before - although I might have done so and not remembered it - and I have gotten in the habit of keeping AOMEI Backupper disk backups in case I have any major problems, so that I can just revert to a previous backup without having to do a re-installation or some seriously heavy debugging/error-checking.
#Dell diagnostics 64 bit windows 10
Question #1: Does the pre-boot Dell Diagnostics tool still work when upgrading from Windows 7 to Windows 10? For example, if I had kept using the original hard disk drive which had the original OEM partition on it, and then upgraded to Windows 10 on that drive, would the Dell Diagnostics still work on it now? However, it can now no longer be used because it is on the slave drive and not the boot drive. I didn't know what it was previously, so I looked it up, and apparently it is for Dell Diagnostics, that can be run if F11 or F12 is pressed during boot-up. Even though it was formatted, I still see now - in Disk Management - that the (39 MB) "OEM partition" is present. I kept the original internal hard disk drive, formatted it, and connected it as a slave drive. I'm not sure where to put this question, but this seemed to be as good of a section as any, since the computer in question was originally a Windows 7 computer - which included a Dell Diagnostics OEM partition on it.Ī while back, I had bought a solid-state drive and installed Windows 7 on it, and then I upgraded to Windows 10 when it became available in July.