It is a diagnostics partition ... it allows you to boot to and run diagnostics without separate media.  You don't need to back this up ... you can always download and run diagnostics from separate media - floppy/USB/CD/network.  You can ONLY get this partition when using Dell's installation utility.
What is the "Unknown"  volume, on the "Unrecognized" file system, that is 47 MB in size, that uses all 47 MB, that has a partition type of Dell, and is flagged as Primary, like the OS is?How and when does it get created?The reason I'm asking is I'm looking at StorageCraft's ShadowProtect for my backups.  One thing I noticed about this partition is I cannot back it up, so I also cannot restore it.  I know it gets restored when I boot from Dell's Installation Utility to do a restore from a Windows backup.  How do people get it back when doing "bare metal" restores with backup software like StorageCraft? [IMAGE]
What is the "Unknown" volume?