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Small Hidden Partition on Dell Notebook
Do I really need to copy the hidden(NON-Dos) partition on my Dell Inspirion 2600 laptop to my new hard drive? I have an image of the main partition to restore to the new hdd but I cant find a definitvie answer on the Dell Knowledge base about the hiden partition. It seems to me that it is just a restore/rebuild partition and I don't really need it unless I want to go back to factory condition. Any help would be great. TIA
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12-09-2006, 09:28 PM
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If it's the 32mb partition, that's the diagnostic partition. If it's a few gigs, that's the recovery partition. If you don't have the diagnostic partition, you have to boot with the Dell Resource CD to run diagnostics.
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12-10-2006, 01:38 AM
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Yea it says it 31 mb. I dont mind using the cd to run diags. I found a tute to rebuild the partition after upgrade but I dont know if I need to jump through all those hoops just so I cam run the diags off of the partition. Just wanted to make sure it isnt critical. Thanks for the info.
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