On Aug 20, 2011, at 12:01 PM, Travis Siegel wrote:
>> Hi Martin
>>
>> The hidden partitions, or actually I should call them protected partitions,
>> not just hidden, contain the WD software for Windows & Mac, plus the
>> manuals. You see the Windows software if you're running Windows and the Mac
>> software if Mac. But you cannot delete those partitions no matter what you
>> do.
> Not to be contrary here, but you most certainly delete the partitions, it's
> not difficult, and I had a case recently where we were trying to restore an
> hp laptop, and it very happily deleted itself during the restore phase,
> because apparently, the install program expected to see 2 partitions, (a c:
> and a d: drive) and it didn't bother to check if they were actual partitions,
> or the (supposedly) protected restore partition.
> We'd used fdisk, to clear out all the old partitions, so there would be only
> a single c: drive, because this person didn't like having a c: and a d:
> drive, she wanted everything on a single drive.
> We'd used fdisk, deleted the two c: and d: partitions, rebuilt it as a single
> partition, and then booted into the recovery partition, and told it to do
> it's recovery process.
> W
Travis,
If you are saying the WD drive can be reformatted to get rid of the
extra partition can you give simple directions? I prefer my Mac to do it but I
could use my old XP machine in a pinch. I don't have Win 7 on the Mac yet.
eric Caron
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