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    Help Me Understand Partitions

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by kujustin, Apr 17, 2006.

  1. kujustin

    kujustin Notebook Geek

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    My new Dell e1505 is coming tomorrow and I understand it has a 5-6 GB restore partition.

    I'm going to format said partition (along with the main partition). Once this is done can I combine them back into 1 partition using the full hard drive?

    Also, can I expand the 5-6 GB partition into 20 or am I stuck with a 5-6 GB partition even if it's clean and formatted?
     
    kujustin, Apr 17, 2006
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  2. ostack

    ostack Notebook Evangelist

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    If you have no need for the restore partition, nad are ok with re-building your OS installation on that notebook, then there is no problem with doing what you want to do. You can just delete both partitions, then create a new single partition or multiple partitions in any size you want, then format each partition using your desifed file system.
     
    ostack, Apr 17, 2006
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  3. NetBrakr

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    I had this question once. My Dell 1150 had 5 GB of restore parition. But I didnt need it, since I have reinstallation CD of XP. I deleted it. The easy was to do this was going through the XP installation CD, of course, you need to reformat after that.

    JC
     
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    Yes it is possible. Just delete the two partitions, and format the single raw space to a single partition.

    You wouldn't be able to do this with the recovery software, I'm pretty sure, so you'd have to use a full windows xp or whatever operating system cd to do this.

    cheers,
    Mike
     
    Shampoo, Apr 17, 2006
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    You can use Partition Magic or similar programs to merge the partitions without reinstalling
     
    vassil_98, Apr 18, 2006
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