Are Dell pc's hard drives partitioned?

boogie man

Concidering getting a new dell in the office but I need the HDD to be partitioned. Do they arrive like that??

Thanks,
BM.

Adeptus Titanicus

Any desktop PCs or laptops we have gotten off them for the past while have not been partitioned

leeroybrown

At a guess it will probably be one large NTFS partition.

Occidental

Dell did format multiple partitions on some of the old Win98 Celeron/PIII Dimensions, but anything we've received in the last year has been single partition. If I remember correctly Dell will pre-configure PC's (including partitions) to your requirements, but they'll also charge for doing so.

Pat

boogie man

If the hard drive is not partitioned do you know if you can order them with 2 hard drives? I can't seem to see an option for adding an additional hard drive on their website.

BM.

leeroybrown

That was probably because of file system limitations. Dell would have shipped FAT16 filesystems with multiple 2.1Gb partitions and FAT32 machines with 32Gb as a max partition size. NTFS doesn't impose those limitations.

You could just resize the partition with Partition Magic or a similar repartitioning tool.

unkel

Originally posted by boogie man
If the hard drive is not partitioned do you know if you can order them with 2 hard drives? I can't seem to see an option for adding an additional hard drive on their website.

BM.

Yes you can, but only on the dimension 8300 and with RAID of your choice

Originally posted by leeroybrown
You could just resize the partition with Partition Magic or a similar repartitioning tool.

Exactly, or even better: just wipe the drive, partition it and reinstall the OS. Gets rid of all the sh1ite you don't need as well

Third_Echelon

Originally posted by unkel
Exactly, or even better: just wipe the drive, partition it and reinstall the OS. Gets rid of all the sh1ite you don't need as well

yeah thats definitely the best move...