Fortunately with my wife's help and the DOS FDISK utility we were able to delete it a while ago. Sadly this is not or will never be an accessible activity. David Ferrin www.jaws-users.com Life is what happens after you have already made other plans. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan & Terrie Robbins" <arobb...@nycap.rr.com> To: <blind-computing@jaws-users.com> Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 6:23 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] deleting a hidden partition
David, I have had similar issues with factory installed hard drives in my Acer tower. I was never able to delete that partition short of running the clean command in diskpart. However, this totally wipes the hard drive and then you need to put back the partitions you want. Not a big deal with Image for Window's but still more work than simply being able to delete the partition. Al -----Original Message----- From: blind-computing-boun...@jaws-users.com [mailto:blind-computing-boun...@jaws-users.com]on Behalf Of David & Patricia Ferrin Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 4:28 PM To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Subject: [Blind-Computing] deleting a hidden partition I need to know if such a task is possible and assuming it is how it may be done. This system has a hidden partition that will boot the system if a secondary power button is pressed for recovery purposes. I am considering removing this and making it a duo boot kind of a deal. I have partition magic 8 if that helps anybody diagnose this problem. David Ferrin www.jaws-users.com For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/