Re: Format Hard Drive

Dell (or at least some of them) use one partition as a restore partition
(which restores the Dell to just it was the day it was shipped), and another
as a diagnostic partition. And I believe they were both primary
partitions, hidden, and FAT or FAT32. If you delete any of those
partitions, you *will* have bootup problems, without doing some patchwork.

Tim Med*** wrote:
Acer computers use a small-sized hidden Fat partition as the restore
(after
catastrophic failure) partition.
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Cheers, Tim Med***, Peckham, London.


"Bill in Co." <not_really_here@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In which case it would be wisest to leave it there. For example, if it
is a Dell, and you delete one of those Dell partitions, you may not be
able to boot up without a fair amount of work, because part of the Dell
MBR boot up process expects those partitions to be there.

Daave wrote:
Or it could be a diagnostic partition (which I would recommend keeping).
What is the make and model of the PC? Did the PC come with this hard
drive?


JS wrote:
Then it could be a Restore Partition
created by the PC vendor.


"skylux" <skylux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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apologies 71mb.


"JS" wrote:

Did you mean to say 71GB or is it really
71MB partition?

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"skylux" <skylux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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hi,

i am trying to format a 300gb hardrive. in win xp sp3 under
computer management and then disk management, i can detect the
harddrive. the problem
is that it shows 1) drive letter H: and 232.75gb NTFS healthy
configuration
and 71 mb FAT healthy EISA configuration. now, i can easily format
the NTFS
configuration but i can't get rid of the FAT partition.

any suggestions on how to make the harddrive "whole" with no
partitions and
just 300mb NTFS healthy configuration?

thanks
sm


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