Hidden recovery partitions

The Dell laptops usually come with a recovery partition which in some machines are hidden by default.The laptop which I bought from India had the partition visible and I was surprised when i didn't find one in my fiance's laptop. In case you are wondering how to see if Dell has hidden the recovery partition in your machine :

• Click on Start -> Type in "cmd" without the quotes which should give you a command line exe in the search results. 
• Right click and Run as Administrator.
• Enter diskpart in the command line.
• DISKPART> Enter "list disk" without quotes.
• Select the disk number . I had only one connected and so "select disk 0"
• Type in "list partition" . This 
• Type in "select partition 2" ( 2 was the recovery partition in my case)
• Type in "assign" : this should assign a drive letter to the recovery partition.

You are all set. The recovery partition should be visible now.

Windows 7 Yippie

Though the recent purchase of a Dell laptop ( Studio 1555 - mike Ming Sunburst edition ) set me back by a 57K , I found out a week back that Dell had a plan in place for folks who bought some of the selected models to have a free upgrade to Win 7. I registered today for the same and guess what !. I am entitled to get it too ;) . Just need to figure out if that is an upgrade CD or a fresh Install CD or just an upgrade option . !