Why are there 4 Partitions on my Drive??

Question

I have a new E520 VIIV Pent 915 with a 250 GB hard drive. Could somebody explain why my hard drive is configured thus:-

Description Disk drive

Manufacturer (Standard disk drives)

Model WDC WD2500JS-75NCB3

Bytes/Sector 512

Media Loaded Yes

Media Type Fixed hard disk media

Partitions 4

SCSI Bus 0

SCSI Logical Unit 0

SCSI Port 0

SCSI Target ID 0

Sectors/Track 63

Size 232.83 GB (249,999,160,320 bytes)

Total Cylinders 30,394

Total Sectors 488,279,610

Total Tracks 7,750,470

Tracks/Cylinder 255

Partition Disk #0, Partition #0

Partition Size 54.88 MB (57,544,704 bytes)

Partition Starting Offset 32,256 bytes

Partition Disk #0, Partition #1

Partition Size 169.93 GB (182,461,386,240 bytes)

Partition Starting Offset 57,576,960 bytes

Partition Disk #0, Partition #2

Partition Size 58.19 GB (62,479,226,880 bytes)

Partition Starting Offset 182,527,188,480 bytes

Partition Disk #0, Partition #3

Partition Size 4.64 GB (4,984,519,680 bytes)

Partition Starting Offset 245,006,415,360 bytes

I can see Drive "C" - "Local Drive" - 169 GB and Drive "D" - "Backup" - 58.1 GB. What are the other two partitions for?

deggsie · Answer

Thanks for that Bev.

shesagordie · Answer

deggsie

The other two partitions should be the 39mb± is Dell's Hidden EISA Partition, that has diagnostics and the 3.46gb partition with the Dell PC Restore by Symantec utility.

Bev.

Please don't send me questions about your system by DCF Messenger.
Post the issue in the appropriate Board, where they will be answered.

shesagordie · Answer

deggsie   Pleased to have helped.  :)   Bev.       Please don't send me questions about your system by DCF Messenger.Post the issue in the appropriate Board, where they will be answered.

mombodog · Answer

http://www.goodells.net/dellutility/index.htm   curiosity......

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Why are there 4 Partitions on my Drive??

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