In a message dated 1/16/2007 10:56:52 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
All hard drives do not have unallocated partitions on them
Hi:
That quote is a contradiction! There is NO such thing as "unallocated
partitions". A drive has either one or the other, unallocated space or
partitions.
The "so called secret" partition on some PCs is not unallocated. It usually
contains bundled OEM programs and Drivers and even the OS and can be made
to run "hands Off", when directed, to provide a system recovery. Those
partitions can be deleted and lost on purpose or accidentally. In that case
the
space then becomes unallocated space that can be re-partitioned, reformatted
and used for other purposes.
However, I would not touch these partitions. On my Gateway it was possible
to copy any recovery stuff to a CD and then be reinstalled from the CD. A
lot of stuff that comes in OEM recoveries is hard to even identify or know why
they are there.
New PCs come with tons and tons of special stuff and if you ever had to
restore this stuff piece by piece you would see why you should keep that
partition. Hope this helps.
Emile
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