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Repartition Preinstallation
Not sure if this belongs here or in Performance & Maintenance. We just got a Dell Inspiron 1750 laptop with Win 7 HP preinstalled. Dell already configured it with 3 partitions: one for the "recovery partition", one for Dell Apps., and one for Win 7. I wanted a separate partition for my data. So, reduced the size of the Win 7 (C:) partition and then made a D: partition out of the rest. The problem is, something only allowed the C: partition to be reduced down to about 1/2 of the 500 GB total drive size. Somewhere I got the information that it might be due to the existence of some immovable files (I did a defrag on it before reducing). I don't believe that the OS needs that much space especially since the system recovery files are in a separate partition. The computer came with reinstallation DVD. It is not an image file but, according to the information with it, it does the installation back to factory configuration. Does anyone know what this reinstallation disc actually works? Is it possible to wipe partition C:, further reduce its size, and then use this disc to reinstall the OS. I'm thinking that is set to recreate the 3 original partitions. I can't get anything out of tech support. "They don't support repartitioning". Bah!
Thanks,
Bill