[lug] Dual Boot with Windows XP

Hugh Brown hugh at vecna.com
Wed Jul 3 14:28:19 MDT 2002


> > On my laptop, I have a "Dell Utility" partition listed as /dev/hda1 with
> > a size of 32MB.
> > 
> >    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> > /dev/hda1             1         4     32098+  de  Dell Utility
> 
> Makes sense, and it looks like I have the same partition.  Of course, I'm
> still wondering what this partition contains?  Any reason I should keep
> it?

The best way to find out what is on the partition is to ask the
manufacturer.  I can't seem to find any info in documentation for
another dell or anyway to get into it in the BIOS (I didn't look super
hard).


> 
> - Wayde
>   (wallen at lug.boulder.co.us)






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