Free Space

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by semtexsy, Dec 18, 2007.

  1. semtexsy

    semtexsy Private E-2

    Ok when i decided to to some house cleaning i noticed that there is 3.14 gigs of unallocated space partitioned on my hd when i went into comp management do i need to save this space for anything or can i use it?:confused
     
    semtexsy, Dec 18, 2007
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  2. Mada_Milty

    Mada_Milty MajorGeek

    Probably your recovery partition, and probably a good thing to leave be. (this would replace your installation discs)

    Could confirm with a make/model of your computer, though....
     
    Mada_Milty, Dec 18, 2007
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  3. semtexsy

    semtexsy Private E-2

    Dell Inspiron 1501 Laptop:crap
     
    semtexsy, Dec 18, 2007
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  4. padams

    padams First Sergeant

    Mada is correct, that 3GB is the recovery partition.
     
    padams, Dec 18, 2007
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  5. Mada_Milty

    Mada_Milty MajorGeek

    Yup.

    See this link to the manuals for this laptop. You do indeed have a recovery partition.

    You CAN get rid of it if you have the media required to rebuild the machine. You will lose Dells windows installation, and any preinstalled software, however. For most users this is best left as is.
     
    Mada_Milty, Dec 18, 2007
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  6. semtexsy

    semtexsy Private E-2

    thanx for the uber quick response on this thread
    i appreciate it
     
    semtexsy, Dec 18, 2007
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