What is CP/M, Concurrent DOS, CTOS and is it safe to delete?

Question

I've got a DELL Inspiron 1150 laptop. Partition magic tells me there is a 3GB CP/M, Concurrent DOS, CTOS partition. Is it safe to delete it and convert it to NTFS or is it doing something important.

ejn63 · Answer

It is your restore partition. You can delete it, but if you do, you will no longer be able to revert to the factory installed image if you need to.

Ed C · Answer

I believe that partition holds the restore image of your notebook so if you wanted to you could restore the unit to as shipped from factory state.

Yes it is OK to delete it and use that space in another partition or as it's own partition IF you never plan on restoring the notebook to as shipped from factory state.

There is also another partition on the drive. It should be aroung 30-40 MB and that holds the Dell diagnostic program. Dell sent a OS CD and the diagnostic program is on the "Drivers & Utilities" CD so you can delete that partition also.

Fire Fusion · Answer

Thanks very much guys!

JohnM121 · Answer

Out of curiosity, how would I use that partition to do a Restore?

Oditius · Answer

@johnm12 wrote: Out of curiosity, how would I use that partition to do a Restore? Hit F11 during boot up.

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