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General discussion

Hard Drive with 2 partitions

Feb 8, 2007 3:53AM PST

I have a Dell 4300 dimensions PC. I am reformatting the hard drive and installing xp. Dell set up the HD with 2 partitions. After deleting both partitions how can I make it 1 partition instead of 2.

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Deletion the restore partition is not recommended
Feb 8, 2007 4:44AM PST
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Are you reinstalling the OS that came with the PC...or
Feb 8, 2007 11:59AM PST

a different one ?

VAPCMD

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Download any partition utility
Feb 8, 2007 3:17PM PST