Vostro 1500 - Deleting Extra Partitions, Still able to restore?

Hi,

My Vostro 1500 just arrived with Vista Business, it has 4 partitions:

RECOVERY (D): 10GB
OS (C): 136GB
UN-NAMED (I assume media direct): 2.5GB
EISA Configuration: 120MB

I'm not bothered about using Media Direct ever, and I want that extra 10GB back from the Recovery partition. Is it safe to delete ALL of those partitions (apart from the OS one, of course), I have no idea what EISA configuration is, or if it's needed... and if I do this, then at a later date decide I want to restore the system to the factory defaults will I still be able to do so with the disk(s) Dell provide without these partitions? Is there any advantage to keeping the partitions?

I intend on tri-booting XP, Vista & Ubuntu also, so it's not _just_ a case of me wanting to delete them, but I might do it acidently and need to restore

Any response will be appreciated.

Thanks!

 

First of all, I have no dell yet, so I have no idea what Media Direct is, then I will leave the partition you assumed as Media Direct

About EISA configuration, It's a partition that manufacturers put EISA utilities & MBR on it so that it can prompt you with a choice to run the EISA configuration at startup.

For Recovery, it's obvious that this partition stores sort of factory default image drive. If you want to be able to restore that state w/o a disc, don't delete it. But if you don't bother using recovery disc, you can get your space back.

In case you are going to do multi-boot, grub in linux could access these partitions too. So if you want to keep it, you can access it.

 

If you delete the recovery partition, it wont magically come back when you want to recover your os...I think that should be given. You will have to reinstall your os from the disks.

 

if you don't know the answer to the question, then don't post.

and especially don't post rambling BS that has absolutely no bearing on the thread topic.

 

I thought it was a good post...

 

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