Quinoa S
March 28th 03, 02:31 PM
Here's my educated guess: Some OEMs put a 'hidden' partition on the hard
disk, which contains diagnostic tools or a compressed image of the factory
download (your computer's original software configuration). You would only
use these things if you ran into serious trouble with your computer and had
to call your OEM's technical support people. The partition is hidden from
view so you won't be tempted to play with it - not that you would actually
do such a thing <g>.
SystemWorks 'unhid' the partition, so now you can see what's inside. The
(formerly) hidden partition uses a different file format (FAT) than the rest
of your computer (NTFS) - that's by design. Hidden partitions don't get a
drive letter, but now that you 'unhid' the partition, Windows assigned it a
drive letter.
You haven't done anything naughty to your computer, but I would suggest that
you hide the partition again. You have no need for it unless you get into
big trouble, and then you'll _really_ need it, so it's best to leave it
hidden, where you or other users of your computer won't become Curious
George.
Quinoa S
"Jeanie" > wrote in message
...
> I have winxp home and nortonsysworks pro 2003. I got a
> pop up message stating that it had found another
> partition and if I had trouble accessing a drive that I
> once had or if I wanted to add this drive to click ok. I
> felt a little leary but I went ahead and clicked ok. I
> then looked in my computer to see if it was there and it
> was, assigned to letter E. But it is a FAT system And C
> is a NTFS sys. filing, and always has been. I feel like I
> did something here. Did I?
disk, which contains diagnostic tools or a compressed image of the factory
download (your computer's original software configuration). You would only
use these things if you ran into serious trouble with your computer and had
to call your OEM's technical support people. The partition is hidden from
view so you won't be tempted to play with it - not that you would actually
do such a thing <g>.
SystemWorks 'unhid' the partition, so now you can see what's inside. The
(formerly) hidden partition uses a different file format (FAT) than the rest
of your computer (NTFS) - that's by design. Hidden partitions don't get a
drive letter, but now that you 'unhid' the partition, Windows assigned it a
drive letter.
You haven't done anything naughty to your computer, but I would suggest that
you hide the partition again. You have no need for it unless you get into
big trouble, and then you'll _really_ need it, so it's best to leave it
hidden, where you or other users of your computer won't become Curious
George.
Quinoa S
"Jeanie" > wrote in message
...
> I have winxp home and nortonsysworks pro 2003. I got a
> pop up message stating that it had found another
> partition and if I had trouble accessing a drive that I
> once had or if I wanted to add this drive to click ok. I
> felt a little leary but I went ahead and clicked ok. I
> then looked in my computer to see if it was there and it
> was, assigned to letter E. But it is a FAT system And C
> is a NTFS sys. filing, and always has been. I feel like I
> did something here. Did I?