Summary: What you are trying to do makes no sense. If you need more room than 80GB then you need another drive no matter what. If you have enough drive space...
Summary: I think... the Dell XP CD will have a reference to the bios for the Dell system with which it was shipped; part of the M$ anti-piracy routine for all ...
Summary: Having been a reasonably satisfied Dell user for many years... I would naturally expect to favour the Dell Inspiron or Latitude series (not using the ...
Summary: Hi there, is it possible to get access to hidden primary partitions or to map them running Windows XP? If you have any idea, please tell me. Thanks. ...
Summary: If M$ sent you 5 discs then they should have included the COA's to go with them. If you purchased 5 computers with an un installed OS that was suppose...
Summary: Bryco, I've got a 4600, and Dell does have a hidden partition on the drive. Besides the Dell applications, utilities, and driver CD's you should have ...
Summary: I have one 40 gb hdd in my laptop. C: Vista ; NTFS E: XP pro ; NTFS I also have a partition for my data. we'll call it D. ; FAT32 The situation: I ca...
Summary: I believe Dell has a small hidden partition on their hard drives. I suspect XP is trying to install on that partition. If you do not want to use the D...
Summary: I agree with wanderer. If you have purchased this Dell after July 15, 2004, the hidden partition contains Dell PC Restore by Symantec Utility in addit...
Summary: The manual does explain how to use the System Restore feature but unfortunately, says nothing about changing the size of the hidden partition or how t...
Summary: I just went through this with my son's HP laptop. Of course, he had not made the Recovery discs, so when his system went to lala land, we were at a lo...
Summary: there is an other option.... Iff del uses a EXTHS (Extended hidden sector) or HS (Hidden sector) feature where they store there system info on a hidde...
Summary: Yes. For Dell that would be setup utilities. On the newer HPs, that came preloaded with XP, the whole recovery system would be on a hidden partition...
Summary: Without knowing what the exact purchase was on the system you can't tell what the state of the license restriction could be. There are several ways t...
Summary: Firstlly you will need a full copy or a full upgrade copy, DELL usually supply Rescue Disk copy with files on hidden partition on the Hard drive. "If ...
Summary: I am about to setup a dual boot with XP and 98SE. I used to have 2K and 98SE dual booted and I had one partition always hidden depending on the OS I w...
Summary: You may face two problems here. Firstly the Dell restore disk you have may not contain operating system setup files. It may be the type of restore dis...
Summary: Might use dell support to return the system to the OEM state before you get too far gone. There are sometimes hidden partitions on dell systems that m...
Summary: If he had used the Reinstallation CD that came with the laptop he would have restored the system to its original configuration. So he's able to boot t...
Summary: John, just went through same thing with a Dell laptop. I wound up just reinstalling with the hidden Dell partition, starting in safe mode and getting ...
Summary: A Dell restore set is the disks you can create from the restore partition. As I stated, if the drive goes South you can't very well restore from it s...
Summary: I have a Dell XPS400 with O/S WinXP MCE 2005 and when I wanted to re-install O/S I was told that all Dell PC's come with a hidden partition that you ...
Summary: first of all XP is on a hidden partition on my hard drive, I did not get an XP cd with my computer. Second is it possible that if I use fdisk that I c...
Summary: Like all popular PCs (HP, Sony, etc) Dell Restore CD is keyed to a hidden partition on the HD. Did you removed it with the utility disc from Hitachi?...
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