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Oringally posted by rusty_slacker
Wait, man. I don't really see a question in your post. What are you asking?
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Originally posted by RRepster
My question is will installing a dual boot ruin this hidden partition and ability to use it?
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The question was there, it just took a while to ask it :-).
The partition from Dell is there to act, from what I understand, to be like a boot disk that you normally get from a manufactured built computer, with all the drivers on etc...
Therefore it should not really get effected if you do install Linux, however, and I cannot stress this enough, if you want to perform the Linux install with relative stress free, then please follow these instructions;
- Goto Dell
- Type in your "code" found somewhere on your computer (dell website willtell you where.
- Find all the systems drivers that your computer needs.
- Download them all, save them to disk.
- Backup everything you want on your system.
- Install Linux, but obviously not deleting the Dell partition.
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If you do the above you should be ok, and if the Dell partition does not like it, you have all your documents, and drivers safe, so you will be ok anyway.
But DO BACKUP. I cannot stress this enough. The number of people who do not back up when doing something as major as installing a second OS is incredible.
Let me know how it goes; Good luck ;-)