Small Dell Utility partition safe to delete ?

Going the clean install route and looking at the partitions, found this small Dell one. It's only about 40MB and uses only 400KB.

Looking with Gparted it's called Dell Utility and with Vista Disk Management, nothing but does say EISA configuration under status.

Any issues deleting this ?

I know it's small but I would like to have more multi boot options and it's taking a slot.

 

You can delete it but it will remove the dell diagnostic utility's i always repartition my drive when i get a new dell

 

Same here, also:

How come you returned/refunded both your systems james?

 

The M1530 had a failed graphics card and dell offered me a downgrade which i refused so they gave me my money back which is not bad for a 10 month old laptop and the SXPS16 i return that last week so i can get one with the free windows 7 upgrade, the processor upgrade to the t9900 3.06ghz and the ATI 4670 when it is available in the uk and all the upgrades work out at a cheaper then what i paid for the one i retuned

 

I reformatted my drive as well. I don't need the dell diagnostic or the recovery partition so I have 2 partitions on my laptop now; 40GB for OS and programs, and 425GB for media and everything else (500GB hard drive).

 

That will work I don't normally have more than one partiton per drive I just backup everything to an external. Having you data on differant partitons lets you format the operating system with out losing you data. I will not however help protect you data if the hard drive dies then all the data on both partitons will be lost

 

i need 3+ partitions for my system(4 if i used the swap partition for ubuntu... 1 each for windows 7, ubuntu, 'work' partition )

the diagnostics is useless for me anyways... i know enough of electronics, and if something doesn't work in windows, switch over to ubuntu to test, if it fails, most probably a hardware problem

 

Excellent, thanks for the good replies.