[ILUG] Winux partitions

[Stephen_Reilly at dell.com]

	As regards HP hidden partitions I'd be guessing. Dell however uses a
similar thing. "The utility partition is a bootable partition on the
hard-disk drive that provides most of the functions available on the Dell
Server Assistant CD. Most of the application programs found on the CD are
contained in the utility partition, occupying approximately 10-20 megabytes
(MB) of space on the system's hard disk drive. When invoked, the Utility
Partition boots and provides an executable environment for the system
utilities. When the partition is not invoked, it is designated as a non-DOS
partition."

	More relevantly if you want to kill it ... "NOTE: The Utility
Partition provides only limited DOS functionality and cannot be used as a
general-purpose DOS partition.

To remove a Utility Partition, use FDISK.EXE and delete the first non-DOS
partition (the Utility Partition)." --- backup all your data first, FDISK
can hurt your system. Personally I'd leave it there and install around it,
unless you really need that 15MBs.

steve


-----Original Message-----
From: jac1 [mailto:jac1 at student.cs.ucc.ie]
Sent: 12 July 2001 15:51
To: ilug at linux.ie
Subject: RE: [ILUG] Winux partitions


I cannot delete or format it. When i right-click on it everything is
disabled 
except the 'Help' menu item. I found this strange and wanted to know what it

was. The intention was to dual-boot. RE M$, I have learned not to mention
them 
or their products again unless it is to put them down. However there is no 
obligation on everyone to answer every question, if you don't want to then 
just delete it.


>===== Original Message From Stephen_Reilly at dell.com =====
>	That would be a utility partition (probably). Go on low level format
>the drive. Are you sure you're on the right mailing list btw, Win2K and
>Access questions .. ? As regards what to do about LILO, what's the problem
?
>Do you want a dual boot effort or are you scrubbing the drive and
installing
>Linux ? The utility partition shouldn't make a heat of difference when
>installing Linux.
>
>steve
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: jac1 [mailto:jac1 at student.cs.ucc.ie]
>Sent: 12 July 2001 10:38
>To: ilug at linux.ie
>Subject: RE: [ILUG] Win2000 partitions
>
>
>HP Vectra, PIII, win2000. The drive is IBM-DTLA-305020
>
>>===== Original Message From "HAMILTON,DAVID (HP-Ireland,ex2)"
><david_hamilton3 at hp.com> =====
>>What brand of machine is it?
>>If it was a bit bigger than 15Mb I'd suspect it was a hibernation
>partition,
>>but it certainly sounds like a dignostic partition or something along
those
>>lines.
>>
>>	David.
>>
>>
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: jac1 [mailto:jac1 at student.cs.ucc.ie]
>>Sent: 10 July 2001 17:28
>>To: ilug at linux.ie
>>Subject: [ILUG] Win2000 partitions
>>
>>
>>I was looking at my PC in work and came across the Disk Management
program.
>>There is a FAT partition that cannot be accessed as a normal partition (It
>>is
>>the first partition but not the C:\). It's only 15MB in size and is called
>>HP_HIPA if that helps. What is this partition? Is it win2000's version of
>>/boot? I have administrative access to the machine but i cannot delete it.
>I
>>
>>want to install Linux later so what do i do about lilo?
>>
>>
>>
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