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Mystery partition on my dell laptop

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joshc

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I've got a Dell XPS M1210 laptop. It came with what I thought was one partition since in explorer all I saw was C:. Anyways, I went to repartition my drive and I noticed there is a 54 MB FAT partition on my hard drive too. Under Computer management in windows it says something about (EISA xxxx). Does anyone know what this partition is for?

Thanks.
 
It's a "utilities" partition. When you boot the computer if you press F12 - my 8300, anyway. Your's might be different - you will get a menu of bootable devices. When you select that partition you can check various parts of the computer. You can delete it if you think you will never need to use it, but...

I just made a image of it with trueimage.
 
Originally posted by: kd7fhd
It's a "utilities" partition. When you boot the computer if you press F12 - my 8300, anyway. Your's might be different - you will get a menu of bootable devices. When you select that partition you can check various parts of the computer. You can delete it if you think you will never need to use it, but...

I just made a image of it with trueimage.
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Yeah I've made several images with trueimage too. It just sort of annoyed me that I had a primary partition that was only 50 MB. How is it "hidden" in windows explorer?
 
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