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| Thread ID: 88476 | 2008-03-28 20:31:00 | Vista HDD Partition - more than 4??? new DELL Laptop | cajetan (8513) | Press F1 |
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| 653731 | 2008-03-28 20:31:00 | got my new DELL 1420 Laptop yay :banana BUT using Vista's (HOME PREMIUM) Disk Management trying to create another partition, i run in this problem "there is not enough memory to blah blah blah........." reading forums it says that on any HDD u can only create up to 4 partitions and DELL has created 4 partitions on my HDD already!!!! :mad: 78Mb (Healthy - EISA Configuration) FREE 78MB SIMPLE BASIC 10GB Recovery d: FREE 5.77GB SIMPLE BASIC NTFS 220Gb OS c: FREE 111.81MB SIMPLE BASIC NTFS 2.5Gb (Healthy - Primary Partition) FREE 2.5GB SIMPLE BASIC i think one the other two are for Diagnostics? and Media Direct? any workaround? other than reinstalling everything and losing the RECOVERY D: |
cajetan (8513) | ||
| 653732 | 2008-03-28 20:35:00 | If Dell say 4 I guess they mean 4. So, no | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 653733 | 2008-03-28 21:16:00 | uh... thks????? | cajetan (8513) | ||
| 653734 | 2008-03-28 23:42:00 | No, that is not correct, you can have up to 4 primary partitions. You can have more than 4, they must be extended partitions. |
The_End_Of_Reality (334) | ||
| 653735 | 2008-03-29 03:22:00 | got my new DELL 1420 Laptop yay :banana BUT using Vista's (HOME PREMIUM) Disk Management trying to create another partition, i run in this problem "there is not enough memory to blah blah blah . . . . . . . . . " reading forums it says that on any HDD u can only create up to 4 partitions and DELL has created 4 partitions on my HDD already!!!! :mad: 78Mb (Healthy - EISA Configuration) FREE 78MB SIMPLE BASIC 10GB Recovery d: FREE 5 . 77GB SIMPLE BASIC NTFS 220Gb OS c: FREE 111 . 81MB SIMPLE BASIC NTFS 2 . 5Gb (Healthy - Primary Partition) FREE 2 . 5GB SIMPLE BASIC i think one the other two are for Diagnostics? and Media Direct? any workaround? other than reinstalling everything and losing the RECOVERY D: Make some recovery CDs first . Then reformat if it bothers you . Although why you'd want so many partitions anyway . . . . . . . . . . . |
pctek (84) | ||
| 653736 | 2008-03-29 04:20:00 | any tips on creating those extended partitions? also my goal is to end up with max 2 partitions as to why DELL created 4 for me is beyond comprehension???:confused: but am a little paranoid on whether i am brave enuff to delete the recovery partition - in theory if i backed up what's on the recovery partition to a Disk and copied it back later would the recovery thing still work? |
cajetan (8513) | ||
| 653737 | 2008-03-29 04:22:00 | in theory if i backed up what's on the recovery partition to a Disk and copied it back later would the recovery thing still work? Isnt that why you make the recovery cd's, it'll create them again anyway?? Once you format and reinstall? |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 653738 | 2008-03-29 04:28:00 | i would think the data on the recovery drive will only reinstall vista and the factory settings on C:\ - not create for me 4 different partitions again? well in theory ..... | cajetan (8513) | ||
| 653739 | 2008-03-29 06:02:00 | in theory if i backed up what's on the recovery partition to a Disk and copied it back later would the recovery thing still work? No. MAKE some recovery CDs, you will have an option from the software in Windows to do that. You can't just copy the data on the partition. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 653740 | 2008-03-29 12:58:00 | thks all took the plunge deleted everything even the recovery partition - so far not too bad DELL's driver's Cd is quite easy to run : ) - cheers | cajetan (8513) | ||
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