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    Extra Partitions on a 1520

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by Gary_Berg, Nov 24, 2007.

  1. Gary_Berg

    Gary_Berg Notebook Enthusiast

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    I've got a 1520 on order with Vista Premium installed, and I've got some questions on the partitioning scheme. If I have understood what I've read here the standard partitioning on a 1520 includes 4 partitions:

    1) Small diagnostics partition
    2) Media Direct
    3) OS Recovery partition
    4) Normal Windows Vista

    This doesn't do well with my normal partitioning scheme, as I normally use an OS/Programs partition, a data partition, and a FAT32 drive imaging partition. I know that with WinXP if I removed the Media Direct and OS Recovery partitions that the normal OS partition would fall over and crash since it can't deal with having its partition number changed. What about Vista - can it deal with this sort of change or not? One guy I spoke to said yes, but if so it's a new feature with Vista.

    I realize I could do a clean-install with the supplied DVD which would eliminate all but the diagnostics partition and then build up from scratch, and I may end up doing that anyway, but I wondered if this was an option.

    I will probably make a drive image of the OS Recovery media and Media Direct partitions in case I want to put the system back to "out of the box", but would this work?
     
    Gary_Berg, Nov 24, 2007
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