how not to initialize HD

[Paul Cartwright]

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





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Paul Cartwright
Registered Linux user # 367800