secret partition on m15x

Hi, I was wondering if anyone knew anything about these secret partitions on my harddrive? Are they apart of the alien respawn? or apart of vista? Because i know that whenever i reformat with the alienware dvd it does it with its own program and not a vista program.

Anyways here are the secret drives in question. Its the 512meg one and the 11gig one. They dont show up on my regular computer page screeen. Here is to hoping you guys would know something aobout it =\

 

The Big 11 gb partition is for the alien respawn
and the 512 mb is probably for the turbo memory

 

is there anyway to remove the alienware respawn and also to add it back in or is this somethign that is locked into our computers? just curious as I may want to upgrade to a larger harddrive =\

 

It is possible to remove it but i dont know how

 

Stick in a linux live cd and delete the partition using gparted.

 

yea, use gparted is the easy way. You can also try other software too. Or try use the partition manager in vista installation dvd. that works too I think just don't delete the wrong one

 

Very much possible and you are just a click away. The partition is on the end of disk which makes it a piece of cake. Right click on the partition and select Delete. Once deleted.. right click on C drive's partition and click Extend. Follow the wizard by just pressing 'Next'.. and you reclaimed 11gb of space to C drive.

 

if you want to restore it later, you might want to backup the respawn-partition before deleting it
you could use acronis true image or ghost or a similar programm for this .)

 

You really wont need that... if anything goes wrong to my machine (say once in a year) I better be reinstalling everything from DVD rather than keeping 11gb reserved to go back to factory install. Anyways that will not recover my personal data

 

I actually kind of like the alienrespawn and used it once already to restore and it isn't bad. The fact that the basic factory OS is not full of bloatware is a plus so it isn't a COMPLETE hassle to go back and it makes a backup of all your stuff in a "backup" folder on your c drive anyways.

 

First you have to make ESA partition show up as active before you can delete it. You have to use a 3rd party program like EASEUS partition manager to do this, because windows won't let you. I know, I've been through this. It was a headache figuring out that Windows wouldn't let me do it.

 

Thats why i suggested gparted. No need to install anything and its easy to use

 

But, don't you have to burn it to a disk and boot from it though? That's more of a hassle to me.