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    Partitions on a M1530

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by smeagle5, Jul 25, 2008.

  1. smeagle5

    smeagle5 Newbie

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    I have a Dell xps m1530 and im about to instal vista x64 bit. Im just curious what the partitions on the disk. I know there is two NTFS partitions (OS and Restore), Dell Media Direct (which i want to get rid of anyways) and a EISA partition.
    The EISA partition is the one that i am curious about, should i leave that on my hard drive or not? I know formatting the other partitions will not have an effect but im not sure about the EISA partition. Any help would be appreciated.
     
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  2. paper_wastage

    paper_wastage Beat this 7x7x7 Cube

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    eisa should be the diagnostics partition ucould boot into if u press F12 at BIOS screen

    i would leave it alone.... its just 120MB+ i think
     
    paper_wastage, Jul 25, 2008
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