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Invisible Partition

post #1 of 7
12/30/05 at 10:39pm
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Hi everyone,

I'm thinking of formatting my 9300 because I didn't do it when i first received it. Just 1 question I have, there is an invisible partition worth 2GB. I have 3 partitions now: C, D, and E. I just want to format C. If I just format C, will it get rid of that 2GB invisible partition as well? I ask because I don't see no drive letter assigned to it in Disk Management. I don't wanna fornat C and still have that thing lying around.

Thanks everybody.
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post #2 of 7
12/30/05 at 10:41pm
It's probably unallocated space. Use partition magic and resize your partitions so you get to use that extra 2GB ;-)
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post #3 of 7
12/30/05 at 10:46pm
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In Partition Magic, it says DELLUTILITY. Can I just format it in partition magic?
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post #4 of 7
12/30/05 at 10:54pm
yes.
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post #5 of 7
12/30/05 at 11:03pm
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Cool, I'll give it a go
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post #6 of 7
12/31/05 at 11:00pm
This is the diagnostic partition, I'd keep it just in case... often times they ask for error codes no matter what you're trying to replace. When my screen had a dark spot, they still wanted an error code from the diagnostics, even though it was generated from me saying the colors on screen weren't perfect.
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post #7 of 7
1/1/06 at 5:56am
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Thanks for the response OMG1Penguin. I used Partition Magic to delete the invisible partition and then when it restarted it couldn't boot into Windows. So I ended up formatting my C. I just doesn't beat having a brand new formatted system partition
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