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February 4th, 2005 20:00

Ghost and the hidden partitions

It is really strange that DELL has chosen this way as a restore method.
In case a disaster recovery, do I need to restore every partition on the hard disk? or just C: is enough? I can backup the two hidden partitions by Ghost (ver 9.0, running under windows),  The problem is, even I have created the images for the hidden partitions, when it is to recover in dos mode, where the images should be restored to? Can I still see those partitions?
Probably I should just give up the "shipped" condition, then, I can get ride of the hidden partitions.
 
By the way, does anybody know how to create a bootalbe DVD from Ghost 9, with the images on? I donot have a floppy drive.

February 4th, 2005 21:00

Yes. You could just delete those patritions, anyway those two are just the diags and the Dell PC restore. You already have the Ghose so you dont need the Dell PC restore and as for the diags, you have a copy of it on your Dell resource disk.

February 4th, 2005 21:00

What's your question? be specific.

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February 4th, 2005 21:00

ok, my question is, do I have to keep the hidden partitions? If I use Ghost to do backup and restore, probably I do not need those two hidden partitions anymore. right?

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February 5th, 2005 02:00

Thanks! but I dont have a disk exactly labeled as "resource" or something. Is that a CD?

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February 5th, 2005 07:00

How large are those "hidden" partitons you are talking about?

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June 15th, 2006 15:00

I have 4 partitions as below on my HDD

1) (Primary) Un-Mounted: DellUtility (Probably FAT) (around 50MB)

2) (Primary) C: C_Drive (NTFS) (Remaining space on the drive)

3) (Primary) Windows NTFS Partition (D: Backup) (Around 20GB)

4) (Primary) CP/M Partition or something (Probably FAT) (Ghost displays it as Un-Mounted) (6-7 GB)

I want to install Linux and not sure which parttitions I must ghost and which to delete so as to free up atleast one "Primary" partition to add linux to.

I have PartitionMagic to tweak the same.

Any advise as to which one I could Ghost and then delete?

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