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Old 10-09-2003, 19:08   #1
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came across this mysterious hard drive aprtition today while sniffing around the settings on my new pc. doesnt show up in explorer or device manager etc, only in computer management. anyone any ideas what it is?

i use XP SP1...
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did your system come preinstalled??

i know some dell machines come with a 30-40mb utility partition which the system usues when you boot from the supplied cd.

Could be somthing like that!. might be worth seeing if you can see it from a DOS boot disk!

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did your system come preinstalled??

i know some dell machines come with a 30-40mb utility partition which the system usues when you boot from the supplied cd.

Could be somthing like that!. might be worth seeing if you can see it from a DOS boot disk!

Cheers

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i reckon it must be this.. tried an old bootdisk and it was floating around there. didnt touch it though...

the system did come preinstalled yes, and also about 100 utility CDs came too... rather excessive
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i reckon it must be this.. tried an old bootdisk and it was floating around there. didnt touch it though...

the system did come preinstalled yes, and also about 100 utility CDs came too... rather excessive
yes it should be my mates pc has a couple of partitions one is the restore part one has his utilities and drivers and then his c: drive and he has a system disk that goes with it.........
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did your system come preinstalled??

i know some dell machines come with a 30-40mb utility partition which the system usues when you boot from the supplied cd.

Could be somthing like that!. might be worth seeing if you can see it from a DOS boot disk!

Cheers

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A lot of shop bought pc's that come with the os installed have a hidden partition that stores the factory settings an windows itself.

did you get an oem / retail windows disk with this machine?
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Could try give it a drive letter (DON'T FORMAT IT TO DO THIS!) and see what's there?
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did you get an oem / retail windows disk with this machine?
OEM dell one... not too packed with bloatware only thing i dont like is that AOL is a compulsory option

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Could try give it a drive letter (DON'T FORMAT IT TO DO THIS!) and see what's there?
i think id best not at the moment... i know its there and i know roughly what its for, dont wana go fannying around with what will end up exploding knowing my luck... (broke a tv by touching it once) heh...

dont wana risk blowing up my shiny new pc...
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OEM dell one... not too packed with bloatware only thing i dont like is that AOL is a compulsory option



i think id best not at the moment... i know its there and i know roughly what its for, dont wana go fannying around with what will end up exploding knowing my luck... (broke a tv by touching it once) heh...

dont wana risk blowing up my shiny new pc...
Press F12 at boot up. You'll see a load of options, one is boot to utility partion, noting special but is standad on all dells now.

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