Delete Partitions?

Question

I hope I'm in the right forum. I have two small partitions at each end of my 160 gig hard drive. One is EISA configuration and the other says Primary. XP is on the system partition in the middle. What is the purpose of the two small partitions and can I delete them? Do they have something to do with BIOS? I'm dual-booting XP and Vista and XP is the only OS that sees anything in them. Vista says they're 100% free.

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I read down the line where the partitions are;55 mb-Dell Diagnostics,4.64 Gb-Recovery.I assure you I won't recover to the factory original state when I have a reinstall CD for XP and don't have to load all the bloatware that came on this thing.The Dell diagnostics I never use either.If it is nessecary for Dell machines to operate,then I would leave it,otherwise I would like to delete that too.I would like to have one solid partition there like I have on Vista.

Message Edited by yarddog983 on 10-22-2007 07:44 PM

yarddog983 · Answer

Bump!!!

yarddog983 · Answer

Allright,thanks for the reply! OK,since I got your attn,can I just use Vista's disk management to delete and the extend them to get the space back? Both of my OS's are freshly installed.    I got a kick out of how you answered.   Git R Done!

boppo · Answer

clean them out and do a clean install.

boppo · Answer

that should work but backup your data first.

yarddog983 · Answer

I've been wanting to get rid of those for a long time.I think to be on the safe side I will wait for a re-install,because when I right click on the recovery partition and select delete the main system partition then becomes highlighted and warns that Windows did not create this volume and that other OS's might be affected.I have two drives.XP on one and Vista on the other.The same thing happens within XP. I better not push my luck. I'm glad to find out what they are and know I don't need them.                      Thanks Again!!

boppo · Answer

best to do it all when you do a clean install, next time.

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Delete Partitions?

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