Hi all,

I recently rebuilt my Dimension 3000 from the supplied Windows XP disk.  However, there were several H/W drivers missing.  A quick visit to my attic to see if there was a disk in the original box later and I had found the drivers disk and manual.

Now, I don't know what made me look, but I checked out the section on "rebuilding your pc" and found the reference to the infamous hidden partition!  I know my partition would not be there as I had used killdisk to blat the HDD.

Finally, to my question....  Is it possible, and do Dell provide the tools, to recreate the hidden partition from my recently installed XP OS?  I don't mean recover the original partition but actually recreate it.  This would save a lot of time downloading latest Windows patches, drivers, etc if I could recreate the partition.

I guess purchasing Norton Ghost will do this but I was wondering if anyone else had done this.

Cheers,

Jason.