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What is this partition on my C: disc?

post #1 of 6
3/4/06 at 6:38pm
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Hi everyone!

I have been reading this forum for a couple of months, since I bought my 9300 back in August 2005, and I have learned a great deal from you guys. Thank you for that
So this is my first thread I've started, hopefully you can help me!

Today, I bought an external harddrive, cause my 60GB 7200rpm internal HDD is running out of space. After looking around in the stores for a while, I finally bought a Philips 40GB 4200rpm.

After bringing it home and installing it, I looked through the manual where they gave intructions on how to do a format by going to Control panel - Computer Management - Disc Management, and there choosing to format. But when I was in there, I noticed that my System disc C: had 3 partitions, and one of them was "Unallocated" and was 2.75 GB! (See pic). What is it for? Is it used by the system somehow, or can I remove it and use it?

My finger was really itching to click "Remove partition" to gain those extra GB:s, so please tell me what to do before I do something really stupid!


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post #2 of 6
3/4/06 at 7:00pm
I forgot..Either the restore partition or a testing thing something or other.

Restore partition restores your harddisk..like it is now I believe.
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post #3 of 6
3/4/06 at 7:00pm
All dell laptops come with 3 partitions....that 2.7gb is your OS "disc".
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post #4 of 6
3/5/06 at 11:35am
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OK!
I'm not going to try to remove it then

Thanks for the help!
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post #5 of 6
3/5/06 at 1:01pm
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Originally Posted by Tiger79
OK!
I'm not going to try to remove it then

Thanks for the help!
Through Disc managment I don't think it will let you anyhow....the only way to safely get rid of them is doing a rull reinstall.
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post #6 of 6
3/5/06 at 5:35pm
holding down FN then pressing power button will boot to one of the partitions after the pre boot assesment test. Thats where the 32-bit diags are.
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