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What's _in_ a hidden partition?
In message , Wolf K
writes: [] Leave it alone. It contains stuff the OS needs. See https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/win...sk-management/ overview-of-disk-management I had no intention of touching it (though previous posts in this thread have said it _can_ be merged into the main C: if you want, though by arcane steps): sorry if my question sounded like I wanted rid of it. It was mainly prompted by anticipating what we might have to do when helping "fake" with his "dark" PC, though I had wondered what is in it before now. I suspect it won't be of any use to "fake", even if he has got such a partition; I _suspect_ either his HD has too many of the system files (and/or the hidden partition and/or boot section and/or partition table) corrupted, or is actually faulty hardware. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf "Bother," said Pooh, as Windows crashed into piglet. |
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What's _in_ a hidden partition?
On 17/03/2018 18:08, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
The "return to factory default state" is misleading, though: they rely on a lot of the OS remaining on the C: partition. 100M (let alone 38M) is far too small for even XP, let alone 7. I suspect your XP partition was probably bigger. If the manufacturer chose to install such an option, presumably they'd also make the hidden partition big enough to hold what was required. Presumably also, a 100MB partition is one containing the boot files only from a default W7 installation, and little or nothing else. |
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What's _in_ a hidden partition?
"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote
| I image the hidden and C: into my image files. Suit yourself. That seems like a brittle solution to me, and eliminating the dedicated boot partition is not a big task. I do it on all machines. But as long as you back up both I guess that works. |
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