Dell M1210 laptop disk - Win7 layout

In looking at out Dell M1210 Win7 disk management,
I've noticed that there are 3 partitions setup...

55MB - OEM ?? Media Direct ??
69GB - NTFS and used for Drive C:
3 GB - Primary Partition

I thought I recall reading that Win7 uses it's own partition
for holding the booting manager software,
vs just putting things in the \root\ sub-dir.

SO - what's the 3GB and guesses on the 55MB ?

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"ps56k" wrote in news:mbjdd7$ffu$1@dont-
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In looking at out Dell M1210 Win7 disk management,
I've noticed that there are 3 partitions setup...

55MB - OEM ?? Media Direct ??
69GB - NTFS and used for Drive C:
3 GB - Primary Partition



80GB seems pretty small for an OEM Win7 hard disk. Any chance Win7 wasn't
the original OS? It kind of looks more like an XP partition layout to me.