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Anonymous   08-22-2004 at 12:52:15 AM

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A friend's Dell Dimension 8300 desktop has a 36 megabyte hidden FAT
partiion on it.

What is it, and how can we "get inside" it to look around and possibly
copy things out of it?

The system is running WinXP Home, the original factory install, which we
may end up "blowing away" and starting over with a generic installation.

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Anonymous   08-22-2004 at 01:11:28 AM
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"Barry Watzman" <WatzmanNOSPAM@neo.rr.com> wrote in message
news:zRMVc.25396$Nl1.9524@fe1.columbus.rr.com...
|A friend's Dell Dimension 8300 desktop has a 36 megabyte hidden FAT
| partiion on it.
|
| What is it, and how can we "get inside" it to look around and possibly
| copy things out of it?
|
| The system is running WinXP Home, the original factory install, which we
| may end up "blowing away" and starting over with a generic installation.
|

It contains hardware diagnostic utilities which may be accessed by pressing
f12 during boot. (the utilities not the partition)

The same utilities are available on one of the CDs the system shipped with
titled "Drivers and Utilities."

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Anonymous   08-22-2004 at 02:50:49 AM
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"Barry Watzman" <WatzmanNOSPAM@neo.rr.com> wrote in message
news:zRMVc.25396$Nl1.9524@fe1.columbus.rr.com...
>A friend's Dell Dimension 8300 desktop has a 36 megabyte hidden FAT
>partiion on it.
>
> What is it, and how can we "get inside" it to look around and possibly
> copy things out of it?
>
> The system is running WinXP Home, the original factory install, which we
> may end up "blowing away" and starting over with a generic installation.
>


Should be the Dell diags. partition. Try pressing F12 at the Dell splash
and select it from the boot menu...


Stew

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