EISA configuration partition on laptop?

[bigpoppapumpg]

Just got a ACER Aspire 5610 with vista premium. the 120 GB hard drive is partitioned into 3 partitions, C:, D: and a 6.8 GB partition that disk manager reports as Healthy(EISA configuration). There is no drive letter on this partition and windows disk manager doesn't allow me to do anything on this partition.

What is this partition and why is it there? the ACER documentation dosn't mention it.

 

[IlllI]

just a guess, but that might be where the windows 'restore' files are.

 

[bigpoppapumpg]

That is what I thought also, however the laptop comes with restore DVD's, and also has a utility to create an image and the manual suggests you make duplicate restore DVD's just in case you lose the originals.

Since the laptop came with DVD's, does it make sense to lock down a partition with a restore image on it? Could it be anything else?

 

[IlllI]

some restore disks are an extra cost. i'm betting all models come with the restore partition, and they just throw in the disks while packaging it up.

 

[pcgeek11]

My Dell notebook also had an EISA partition which was small ~ 70MB which was hidden and contained the Dell Diagnostics. Of course I deleted it as the diagnostics are also on the Driver disk.

pcgeek11

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

Originally posted by: pcgeek11
My Dell notebook also had an EISA partition which was small ~ 70MB which was hidden and contained the Dell Diagnostics. Of course I deleted it as the diagnostics are also on the Driver disk.

pcgeek11

How did you delete it though? The option to delete is not present in the Windows disk manager.