Do Hp, Dell, Alienware and Gateway ever ship pc's with partitioned hard drives?

[mangoluvr]

I just want to know if they leave windows xp on its own partition and then let you install games and apps on another?

 

[kingsrook7]

Dell definitely does

 

[Zepper]

The only partition they usually have other than the primary is one that may be hidden with their recovery software (the OS and bundled software) in it. Of course with drives larger than 130 or so GB, you may have to partition to use all the space. Regardless of whether they do that or not, it is one of the first things I would do upon getting a packaged system. Among the logical drives I would create would be one of about 1GB just for gathering files for burning to CD. Another of 2GB would be used for the swap file and TEMP/TMP directories as well as the Temporary Internet Files directory. I try to keep writing to the C: partition to a minimum for obvious reasons.
.bh.

 

[AtTheGates]

My friend just bought an hp. I'd like to partition it but the recovery cd wipes out all partitions I've made and formats without any prompts. I tried booting from a Gentoo SystemRecoveryCD and using QTparted to resize the drive but upon reboot it says no operating system can be found. Anyone have any ideas how I could partition it?

 

[Smilin]

Originally posted by: mangoluvr
I just want to know if they leave windows xp on its own partition and then let you install games and apps on another?

Dell will typically place a server OS on either a 4 or 8GB parition.

Home OSs typically get the whole drive.

In both cases they put a ~32mb eisa partition at the beginning of the drive.

 

[Bassyhead]

i had an HP before with a 60GB drive and 9GB or so was dedicated to a hidden partition with recovery stuff