I don't know what this partiton is...

Using ATI 10 and imaging a laptop drive which I thought was just one partition C: but the 'schedule task' wizard shows the following partition too which I don't have a clue what it is or if I need to image it also:

FAT 16 39 MB 6.5 MB FS: FAT16 partition: OxDE (EISA configuration)

Thanks in advance for any input.... Gary

 

blenderbender,

It's the Dell Utility partition used for Diagnostics. It's not essential but worth having and I image this partition.

 

As Brian said, it's the Dell diagnostics partition. When you make an image check the box for the whole drive. Adding a tiny 39MB partition won't make your backup image significantly larger, but it will ensure that you can restore to create a bootable new hard drive in the event of a disk failure.

 

Thanks Brian and John.... I had been imaging that partition also just because I didn't want to leave something out even though I didn't know what it was. But now it all makes somewhat more sense to me.

Gary

 

Hello blenderbender,

Thank you for choosing Acronis Disk Backup Software.

We are sorry for the delayed response.

As it was mentioned this is hidden Dell Utility partition. You may have a look at this article <Inside the Dell Utility Partition> by Dan Goodell to find more information.

Thank you.
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Aleksandr Isakov