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Mozeley

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December 10th, 2009 01:00

restoring dell hard drive partition configuration

i had a virus an clean installed windows 7 but when i went to format the hardrive i formatted c drive but i accidently deleted the back up drive i dont wanna restore the data i jus want to get the partition config back to how it was as ive only got 2 drives in my computer one being c dive the other being the disk drive there used to be 3 drives before

  • TheRealFireblad

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    Posted December 10th, 2009 10:00

    Unfortunately... as you've now found out to your cost... doing a 'clean' install yourself, completely wipes the hard drive.

    And having wiped the hard drive, there's no way to restore it to the pre-installed configuration.

     

    What you'll have to do now, is create your own [extended] partitions.

    It's not difficult (Google the subject, if you don't know how to do it already.  Try here for starters though), and in fact it's somewhat beneficial, because with the hard drive set up as per Dell's configuration, you couldn't add your own partitions, without first deleting one or more of the Dell partitions!

    That's because Dell don't allow (for reasons unknown to me?) more than four partitions?

    Having since wiped the hard drive however, you're not limited to a specific number of partitions.

     

    Let us know if you need any more help on the subject?

  • Mozeley

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    Posted December 10th, 2009 11:00

    i dont mind having jus one partition with the os and all other files  but does it affect system peformance and when i deleted the other partition would it of deleted completly from the system or would i hav had to format it first cuz the main reasen i done a clean install was  because i had a trojan and i wanted to make sure it was gone could the trojan still be around ive done a kaspersky scan which was the one that originally found it and it is coming up clear now i blame mcafee for this i had the total protection and it let stuff past and didnt even detect them when i scanned