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August 11th, 2004 03:00
Removing Extra Partitions?
Hi.
I just purchased an Inspiron 1150. I need to add both Linux (for work) and Windows 98 (for some older games for my kids) to the existing Windows XP Home setup. However, the hard drive has three primary partitions set up already, and there isn't room in the partition table to add two more.
From what I have read elsewhere, the first partition (a small 47MB FAT16 partition) contains diagnostics tools, and can be safely removed, as the diagnostics tools are available elsewhere. Is this correct? The second partition is the main Windows XP partition and can obviously not be deleted if I want to keep Windows XP installed. The third is a 3GB FAT32 partition, and appears to be a system restore image of some kind. For what purposes would I need to keep this on the system? What would I lose if it were to get deleted?
Thank you.
I just purchased an Inspiron 1150. I need to add both Linux (for work) and Windows 98 (for some older games for my kids) to the existing Windows XP Home setup. However, the hard drive has three primary partitions set up already, and there isn't room in the partition table to add two more.
From what I have read elsewhere, the first partition (a small 47MB FAT16 partition) contains diagnostics tools, and can be safely removed, as the diagnostics tools are available elsewhere. Is this correct? The second partition is the main Windows XP partition and can obviously not be deleted if I want to keep Windows XP installed. The third is a 3GB FAT32 partition, and appears to be a system restore image of some kind. For what purposes would I need to keep this on the system? What would I lose if it were to get deleted?
Thank you.
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