Re: [SLE] Can the 9.1 installer resize an NTFS partition?
From: Mike (kenziem_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: 06/30/05
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To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 11:01:10 -0400
On March 19, 2005 11:12 am, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
> On Saturday 19 March 2005 10:46 am, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
> > I guess it is academic now, as I believe Paul used Partition Magic to
> > resize, but it does beg the question, Paul, did it have more than one
> > partition on the disk? I have seen a small restore partition in
> > addition to an XP partition on some laptops (hidden from XP). I think
> > Colin may have this one pegged.
>
> Yes. Dell does put a small restore partition on the hard drive. I didn't
> realize that that could be the cause of the problem.
On newer machines Dell has 2 hidden partitions.
Partition 1 is a small FAT partition with diagnostics (accesses via F10),
Partition 2 is NTFS and holds the spyware and virus host
Partition 3 is a 3 gig ghost image (via ctrl F11)
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