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jimtimber

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    Best laptop drive partition setup to use
    « on: December 08, 2018, 12:45:32 AM »
    Apologies, I didn't know which part of the forum to post this.

    I had to do a file recovery of my laptop and Dell had to do some things to the BIOS. When I run the recovery software to do so, I see the following drives:

    OS c:/ NTFS: Total Space=462gb Free Space=260gb
    Physical Drive 0 RAW: Total Space=476gb
    Dell Support Partition NTFS: Total Space=1gb Free Space:92MB
    Partition FAT32: 496MB Free Space=469MB

    I'm not sure if all the partitions are needed and if I should be moving anything to get best storage. Any advice would be welcome.

    Thanks.

    DaveLembke



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    Re: Best laptop drive partition setup to use
    « Reply #1 on: December 08, 2018, 05:52:16 AM »
    Best not to remove any of those because they all serve an important purpose.

    So you sent the laptop to Dell and they serviced it to flash the BIOS?

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      Re: Best laptop drive partition setup to use
      « Reply #2 on: December 09, 2018, 12:41:19 AM »
      Thanks Dave, I guess I was checking if the setup seems right.

      r.e. the BIOS and Dell, when I did my first Dell Update which was for the BIOS, the laptop wouldn't boot anymore. Dell Support said I had to download something Dell sent me to a flash disk and when I booted, had to tweak a lot of settings to get it to boot again. Again, I've no idea what they did or if there is any files/partitions that were created.

      Thanks again.