Hi,
The partition you discovered is Dell's hidden recovery partition.
Unless you have a set of recovery CD's, do not disturb the files there.
Also, if you do not have recovery CD's I believe the info necessary to create them is stored on that partition. Your manual should have instructions about how to use this recovery partition. I'm not sure now but I think it's F10 at boot to use the recovery partition to restore the system's software back to factory condition. Again, check your manual.
Clint

-- Bill <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From: Bill Patton
Date: January 25, 2005
Subject Dell Machine Harddrive Partitions

I recently installed Partition Magic on my Dell computer.  I created a
logical drive.  In so doing, PM showed me additional "hidden" partitons on
the drive. At the beginning was a partition titled Dellutility, (Fat), total
size 55mb, used 7.4mb.  At the end was a partition titled Local Disk which
PM said was "other" and said"CP/M, Concurrent Dos, CTOS", total size 2816mb,
used 2816mb.  Can you tell me what each partition is and if there is any way
to read the information in these partitions?  What would be the result of
deleting either?  Thank you

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