Dragon,
> All hard drives do not have unallocated partitions on them.
First a tedious grammar lesson. What you actaully said above os that NO
drives hace unallocated partitions. The correct way of saying it is NOT all
hard drives... etc. The NOT modifies ALL. Sorry, I have a language fetish
going on.
> Sometimes manufacturers load an image of a certain size.
I have never seen a drive that did not have the 7.8 empty partition. I can
imagine how they could prevent the empty partition using an image. And this
could be a cost benefit. If they had some kind of rig with one master drive
with a modified OS and a bunch of tempty drives in some kind of slave
function. Then the program on the master drive copies the images to the
slave drive. The OS is not monitoring the slaves and the ccopy program has a
special OS on it that bypasses the standard OS operations which would
prevent the images from being copied to unpartitioned slaves.
Notice that I said that I can imagine this, I have no idea whether they do
it that way. My imagination was influenced by how the drives whould not have
the empty partition. It almost seems to be something built into the OS since
my external drive has one as well.
> Windows will not allow you to look at most foreign partitions.
True, and BTW, I did manage to view the contents of the 39. Meg parittion
where the utilities are stored since the latest PM has a browse function. I
tried copying the files to another folder but that did not work.
Unfprtunately that did not work with the CP/M partition. I am going to call
the Dell tech today and ask about the CP/M partition and about how I will
get my free copy of Vista.
Oh, both the size and the 'used' attributes of the CP/M partition are
exactly the same size. That suggests to me that it is just an image rather
than a collection of files.
> take a peek at it by booting with a Linux LiveCD.
I will try that just to see whether it works.
>'Why would you want to look at it'?
My response is what I Sir Hillery said when asked why he climed the
mountain. "Because it's there."
>If it has utilities on it, would you want to modify it?
I don't know what the CP/M paritition has on in it, the utilities are on the
other mystery partition.
> If the partition is simply empty space, by all means, reclaim it.
Nope, the size and used are the same. I suppose that if the Dell tech says
that the system does not in any way use that partition I might delete it.
Well, maybe not. I am not hurting for space on my 250 G drive. :-)
Jim
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