I have a relatively new Dell Inspiron 1525 laptop running Windows Vista Basic. I was changing some settings when I noticed that my hard drive came with four partitions:
1) EISA Configuration, 39MB. I know what this is.
2) Recovery Partition, 9.77GB. It's named "Recovery" and is assigned to the D: drive. I know what this is too.
3) OS Partition, assigned to C: drive, 220.58GB. This is normal.
4) Here's the weird one. A 2.50GB partition just sitting there, no name, no indication of what it's for. The only option in the Disk Manager is to delete it; I can't map it to a drive letter to see what's in it, can't resize it, nothing.
Does anyone know what this unnamed partition is for?
its a HPA-based Dell Mediadirect partition
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That is exactly why the first thing I do with new laptops is format the hard drive. So much crapware.
Termana is correct: Understanding the Dell MediaDirect Partition
It is actually a neat feature that allows you to watch DVDs without actually booting your computer.
The first laptop I ever saw do this was my Alienware (when Alienware was an independent company). I wonder if Dell adopted that technology with their acquisition of Alienware.
Probably so. I don't see why they wouldn't.
i thought it was hp that owned alienware?
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