[nflug] wtf is up with this %$#@*& "dell restore" partition
Stephen Burke
qfwfq at adelphia.net
Tue Dec 19 17:37:09 EST 2006
All the recent talk here about ntfsresize as a helpful tool to make new
laptops actually useful some of the time inspired me to attack an
inspiron b120 which been an M$+dell nightmare for the last half year or
so. I have the latest knoppix for parted (as suggested somewhere I was
reading about ntfsresize), and the thing's got a 40G drive, so there's
plenty of space. But when I open parted, instead of the big ntfs
partition I expected, there are 2 MORE parts in there - a small (6M or
so) fat16 at the start and a 3G fat32 at the end called "dell restore".
At first I thought I could just burn the 3G one to a dvd and then kill
it, but there's only a dvd reader in there, so I thought to share it to
a machine that HAS a dvd burner, but I can't find it anywhere in XP
except in the disk manager there, and I can't share from there. ;-)
Any ideas on what this thing is, eating up a healthy chunk of my hard
drive? Whether I need it? WTF is on it? Clearly dell has taken pains to
hide it. Do I juat let dell jack me for 3 gigs, or do I wipe it off
there because it's some sort of timebomb set to go off when gates and
dell finally take off the gloves and start battling for Master of the
Universe?
Having that extra 3 gigs would be nice, but I expect about twelve dell
lawyers to start calling me an sending me nasty letters as soon as the
M$ servers find out that they can't scan my shit the way they used to.
Thanks,
S.
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