How do I access the Drivers Partition?

hey guys, I just got my DELL E1705 and reinstalled winXP - I thought I could easily access the partition, but I cannot.. It shows up in the device manager/harddrive manager, but I cannot access it - doesnt show up in windows explorer.. do I have to assign a drive letter to it or am I missing anything here? thx

 

i would get them from the website instead as they may be newer

 

problem is that I can only access their website with another computer that has no cdburner installed and I have no other ways of getting it to my dell computer.. so back to my question - how do I access the drivers on the hidden partition??

P.S. I also do not have any partition magic software or alike on that notebook and cant connect to my home network without the right LAN/ethernet drivers

 

anyone can help?

 

all I need to get access to is the ethernet drivers for my lan card on my notebook, I guess they are on the hidden partition, but I cant access it.. hhheeeellppp

 

Didn't you get the drivers disc with the machine?

In any case, there's no such thing as a 'drivers partition'. Maybe you mean the restore partition? I don't think you can access that without actually doing the full restore.

Maybe you should run out and buy a USB thumb drive for $15 or whatever.

 

its 3:37am here no chance to get a USB thumb or anything right now and I wanna get it done before the sun rises hehe

and no, there was no CD, except word perfect and aol

 

That ain't gonna happen. Just call dell and request the drivers cds. They should ship em out for free.

 

goddamn no miracle workarounds?

 

USB floppy drive/flash drive could solve your problems...