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Downloading the Partition Tweak Script

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3 Downloading the Partition Tweak Script If the recovery partition of the SATA 3.0 drive is protected from shrinking the volume to create a 5 MB un-allocated partition, the user will encounter the following error messages when enabling Intel Optane Memory: Error Message: ISDI_0xA001004C: Last volume is not a data partition. Cannot shrink. If encountered, the user can download the Partition Tweak Script from the Dell Support site to create the partition. Go to Dell.com/support and enter your system's Service Tag or click Detect Product to enable the website to take you to the correct download page. Alternately, you can select Choose from all products and navigate to Desktops & All-in-Ones> OptiPlex > and select your OptiPlex system from the list. Then, select Drivers & Downloads > Application > Partition Tweak Script for Optane The script uses the Microsoft Diskpart.exe tool in Windows 10 OS and changes the Partition Type from Recovery to Basic Data Partition GUID to shrink the partition for 5 MB. Then it changes back to the Recovery type. CAUTION: You may suffer data loss if you are running this utility in other platforms OR running this utility without the Intel Optane Memory Customer Kit from Dell. Dell will not be liable for such data losses. YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR OTHER DEVICE OR LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS FROM THE DOWNLOAD OF OR RUNNING THE UTILITY. 6 Downloading the Partition Tweak Script

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Downloading the Partition Tweak Script
If the recovery partition of the SATA 3.0 drive is protected from shrinking the volume to create a 5 MB un-allocated partition, the user will
encounter the following error messages when enabling Intel Optane Memory:
Error Message: ISDI_0xA001004C: Last volume is not a data
partition. Cannot shrink.
If encountered, the user can download the Partition Tweak Script from the Dell Support site to create the partition. Go to Dell.com/support
and enter your system’s
Service Tag
or click
Detect Product
to enable the website to take you to the correct download page. Alternately,
you can select
Choose from all products
and navigate to
Desktops & All-in-Ones
>
OptiPlex
> and select your OptiPlex system from the
list. Then, select
Drivers & Downloads
>
Application
>
Partition Tweak Script for Optane
The script uses the Microsoft Diskpart.exe tool in Windows 10 OS and changes the Partition Type from Recovery to Basic Data Partition
GUID to shrink the partition for 5 MB. Then it changes back to the Recovery type.
CAUTION:
You may
suffer
data loss if you are running this utility in other platforms OR running this utility without the Intel
Optane Memory Customer Kit from Dell. Dell will not be liable for such data losses. YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR
ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR OTHER DEVICE OR LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS FROM THE
DOWNLOAD OF OR RUNNING THE UTILITY.
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Downloading the Partition Tweak Script