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What's _in_ a hidden partition?



 
 
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Old March 17th 18, 07:13 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
J. P. Gilliver (John)[_4_]
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Default What's _in_ a hidden partition?

In message , Wolf K
writes:
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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.


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Old March 17th 18, 07:23 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Java Jive
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Default 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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Old March 17th 18, 10:27 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Mayayana
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Default 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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