On March 19, 2005 11:12 am, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
On Saturday 19 March 2005 10:46 am, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
I guess it is academic now, as I believe Paul used Partition Magic to resize, but it does beg the question, Paul, did it have more than one partition on the disk? I have seen a small restore partition in addition to an XP partition on some laptops (hidden from XP). I think Colin may have this one pegged.
Yes. Dell does put a small restore partition on the hard drive. I didn't realize that that could be the cause of the problem.
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