On Tue August 3 2010, Thomas Taylor wrote: > I beg to differ on that. My Dell Studio 1745 which came with the "hidden" > partition shows up clearly in Gparted (PartedMagic). Found that out the > hard way when the windblows 7 blew up and the restore function failed. > Something had creames that "hidden" partition. Had to argue with Dell > until they finally sent me installation media as required by law. I also had an sda2 that had the restore partition, it is long gone.. I seem to recall I also had an sda3 that also had some files on it.. maybe that was my desktop.. here is my Dell XPS desktops fdisk: fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0xe686f016 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 8 64228+ de Dell Utility /dev/sda2 * 9 13661 109667722 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda3 38308 38913 4867695 db CP/M / CTOS / ... /dev/sda4 13662 38307 197968995 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sda5 13662 13923 2104483+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda6 * 13924 16534 20972826 83 Linux /dev/sda7 16535 38307 174891591 83 Linux -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
