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    Dell Inspiron 640m

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by carn1x, Apr 6, 2010.

  1. carn1x

    carn1x Newbie

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    Hi all,

    My Dell has a 120Gb HDD with the following partitions:

    78mb FAT (EISA Configuration)
    67Gb NTFS (c :)(System)
    2Gb FAT32 (MEDIADIRECT)(Unknown Partition)
    4gb FAT32 (Unknown Partition)

    Just wondering if I need to preserve any of these partitions if I format? I plan to stuff Linux onto it, and MediaDirect I think I've used for about 5 minutes the entire time I've had the laptop (3 years) as a result of accidentally pressing the button, so I'd happily claim that 4Gb back.

    Thanks :)
     
    carn1x, Apr 6, 2010
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  2. Commander Wolf

    Commander Wolf can i haz broadwell?

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    I mean... if you don't want to keep any of the partitions, there's nothing system critical there. 4GB is probably the recovery partition, but if you're already loading Linux onto the thing, I doubt you're gonna use it.

    How come the capacities of the partitions don't add up to 120GB?
     
    Commander Wolf, Apr 6, 2010
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  3. carn1x

    carn1x Newbie

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    Good question, maybe it's only an 80gb, I've for some reason always assumed that it was a 120gb. Can't say I've ever seen the words "Not enough space" in my entire time using the laptop however, so I guess that's why I'm way off target!

    Thanks :)
     
    carn1x, Apr 6, 2010
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  4. jason1214

    jason1214 Notebook Evangelist

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    The 78mb FAT partition is the diagnostics. I would leave that and lose everything else for a Linux install.
     
    jason1214, Apr 6, 2010
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