Re: UNKNOWN PARTITION

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T

2.95Gb seems to be a little excessive for a set of diagnostic routines.. how
sure are you of your information?.. is this what Dell have told you?..

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Mike Hall
MVP - Windows Shell/User


"Turd Anderson" <TurdAnderson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> It is a utility partition that contains the dell 32 bit diagnostic tests
> and
> IDE drive diagnostics. If you call in for warranty tech support for some
> reason, they use these. You can delete the partition though. The 32 bit
> tests
> are on the drivers cd.
>
> "mpctek" wrote:
>
>> I need some help please. I have a Dell Inspirion laptop with a 40gig hard
>> drive, running Win XP. It has a 55MB FAT partition for EISA
>> configuration, a
>> NTFS partition, and a 2.95gig FAT partition listed as unknown. I was
>> wondering what could possibly be the unknown partition. I cannot find it
>> in
>> the cmd prompt or explorer. Please help because if it is not used by XP I
>> would like to delete it.
>>
>>
>>


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