On Sunday 03 October 2004 17.18, Donald D Henson wrote:
Deleting the non-standard partition was one of the first things I tried. How did you delete it?
Allen K wrote:
Most of the time it's for when you reinstall Windows. My Compaq and my Dell have one....Heh, HAD one. On my Dell Laptop, I deleted it, renstalled XP, and installed Linux to dual boot. On my Compaq Presario, GONE, deleted it, and installed Slackware Linux. I tested to see if Windows would still install if needed and it does.
If you want you can delete it, you'll of course have to reofrmat to reinstall Windows like you would anyway, to me they are a waste of space.
On Sat, 2004-10-02 at 16:50, Donald D Henson wrote:
I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this but I don't seem to be able to get a clear answer from the other lists I have tried, lists to remain nameless.
I want to repartition a hard drive to make room for Linux partitions in a dual-boot configuration. I tried using Partition Magic but it reports a non-standard partition and exits without making any changes. I have discovered that both Dell and Compaq create non-standard hidden partitions on their hard drives, the reason apparently open to debate. Does anyone know how to get around this non-standard partition? I'd appreciate any assistance here.
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The "hidden" parttiton on a DELL is a ""dell system" partition. They (at least USED to hide different programs there to check the system in case of a crash. It was reached by a special CD/floopy... And some other odd sytems used that partitin idea for BIOS setup facilities. But as far as i know, you can erase it. -- /Rikard ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rikard Johnels email : rikjoh@norweb.se Web : http://www.rikjoh.com Mob : +46 735 05 51 01 ------------------------ Public PGP fingerprint ---------------------------- < 15 28 DF 78 67 98 B2 16 1F D3 FD C5 59 D4 B6 78 46 1C EE 56 >