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    How to delete all the hidden partitions and recovery partition?

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by vananhdo, Jan 24, 2008.

  1. vananhdo

    vananhdo Notebook Enthusiast

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    I see tons of partitions listed when I use paragon...something to try to change the capacity of my main partition. Also, after I resize the partition my laptop restarts and does a bunch of partition check. Furthermore, whenever I try to create a new folder in the partition called "recovery" I keeps asking me about permission. Those thing really freaked me out. and I don't think I can reformat the partition at all. Is there any way I can get rid of these partitions and reclaim my precious 10GB from them?

    By the way, I'm using Vista and my laptop is XPS1530. Sorry but I'm pretty new to laptops and computers all that...Thanks for helping me.
     
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    M1chel Notebook Geek

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    Any software similar to Partition Magic or Acronis Disk Director (which I now prefer) should do the trick. I'm sure there are some freeware alternatives too. Maybe Vista even has some dumbed-down solution built-in - since Windows now tends to include everything but the kitchensink...
     
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    capntang Notebook Guru

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    ProfessorShred Notebook Evangelist

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    If you don't care about losing dell's media direct program,heres what I did
    download KillDisk http://www.killdisk.com
    Utilize the program to make a bootable USB,run it and wipe the entire C: drive(at this point you will have 1 partition)
    then insert your Windows Vista disc,reinstall OS and then add needed drivers from the driver/utility DVD that came with your computer,it has no bloatware other than the drivers/utilities
    Viola...your done :D
     
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    vananhdo Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thank you guys. I finally kill all the random partitions. Woohoo! Right now...I'm having some difficulties installing XP. I don't have the driver for Matrix storage that is compatible with XP. I have the one the the company gives me but I think it's for Vista. Wonder if it works with XP, too?
     
    vananhdo, Jan 30, 2008
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