Laptop HD question

[Starrx05]

I just bought an 80G to replace my old 60G from my Inspiron 6000. Taking a look at the HD, I see 3 partitions, 55M FAT (EISA Configuration) 52G (NTFS) and 3.77G FAT32 I can delete the later 2 but not the first. I know I can use WD utility to wipe them all out but what's that first partition and the last one for? The new HD doesn't have anything on it so I just made one big partition and install XP. Everything went fine. So why Dell put those 2 partitions there on my old 60G?

 

[intogamer]

Thats probably dell propriatory stuff

 

[vinosuaf]

The other two partitions are actually to restore your hard drive to the factory condition. Dell does that now it seems rather than give you cd's for everything.