Who wipes all partitons clean on their dell?

Ive been thinking of wiping all partitons clean and removing the recovery which Ill never use. Im wondering how many people do this in the dell community. DOes not matter which model or series, rather just a clean HDD or originall partitons.

 

Its the only sure way to be rid of bloatware. And imo, recovery partitions are a pain in the butt, and there are better solutions out there that don't take 1/10th of your hard drive space.

 

I have done none of the above. I left my Dell Utilities partition, but deleted the MediaDirect and Recovery partition, and made those into a Ubuntu partition, so I kind of mixed things up...



Oh yeah, I did reinstall Windows, so that wiped the Windows partition, but there wasn't any bloatware to begin with. (Small Busines notebook FTW).

 

Yeah and using the recovery partiton to reload the OS will return all the bloatware. Now to just figure out the AHCI issue with XP and to decide whether to turn it back on.

 

Yeah I am DLing unbuntu as we speak, I saw a video of the cube on a 1700 and missed it.

 

yup, removed all of them, there were like 4 with my m1330.

 

I reformat/reinstall/repartition every time.

I keep a 30GB partition for Vista. I then make 3 more partitions for applications, data, and games. I also recreate the MediaDirect partition.

This makes virus scanning and o/s maintenance much quicker and efficient.

 

Start from scratch.

 

1st thing I do when I have gotten all my pcs...it's part of the fun...that...and the tweaking....

 

Don't have a Dell yet but I will erease all partions and install XP

 

"I delete all partitions and start from scratch". Always.

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Durr, wut's a partition???

Yeah, I start from scratch as well. One of the reasons I buy Dell is that they always include an OEM OS disk instead of some stupid recovery disk image.

 

same here heh.
Dell Utility/windows/linux(/, /home/, swap).

 

That's the first thing I do is wipe everything out and start from scratch, afterwards it's so zippy.

 

Same here. Actually, the very first thing I do is boot from a True Image CD without ever having booted the HDD, and do a disk level backup to media... THEN I delete everything I have my way with it. That way if I ever resell I can give the client the option of startinng just like it came straight from the OEM, or I can give them a clean install if they want and give the disks to them to have the same option later.

Plus, if I really screw something up, or I am having weird issues I cannot track down, I can always restore from the TI backup and start over. Just in case I have to engage support (like for suspected hardware issues), it is always better to be running from their install to avoid finger pointing .

Otherwise, I don't want a restore partition on my darn HDD, that is a waste of space!! The only time I need that level of restore is when my hard drive crashs... and oops, there goes the restore partition with it .

The only time I would ever need that level of restore is when reselling, which having the image on disk is fine for. For normal folks who don't wipe and need to restore to make their laptop healthy or something... well having the image on disk should be fine for that too .

 

That makes great sense if you are using a large hard drive (like you are ). Unfortunately for those of us with SSDs, this option doesn't really make sense since a 30gb partition is about 1/2 of our current drive lol....

 

I deleted the recovery partition, increased the vista partition, split it 2 and added an xp partition.