Gonna format soon.

I plan on reformating my HD soon. I currently have Media Direct 2.0, but my father got a MD 3 disc with his system so I think I will use that to upgrade my Media Direct when I format (if i cant do that let me know). I wanted to set up my partitions in a way that I had the Media Direct Partition, Diagnostic Partition, Windows Partition (includes windows + games) and data partition (music, videos, photos, files, etc.) Will this setup work? Ive heard that something like this will cause conflicts with media direct.

Is it even possible to set up the partitions in this way? I want windows partition to be about 30-40 gb, and I want the rest of my 120 gb HD to be the data partition. How would I go about setting up the partitions this way?

What Im getting at is it possible to take the current windows partition and the dell restore partition, put them together, and then split them. When I update to Media Direct 3.0 will the "hidden" 2.0 partition form into the Media Direct 3.0 partition. or will it be lost forever?

I seen something on here that there is a windows program in the dell folder that will delete and merge the dell restore partition with the windows xp partition. Should I do this before I format? Is it safe to do it now?

My system does not have this C:\Dell\Utilities\DSR\DSRIRRemv2.exe. Is the C drive it only has a folder called "dell" and no "utilities" folder inside of that. I did a search for both the dsirremv2.exe and a Utilities folder and neither showed up. lol any help here?

I do have a DSRIRREM.exe is the C:/i386 folder and the system 32 folder... Is this the same thing?

 

come on, anyone?