I removed the hidden partition on my son's Compaq laptop without any ill effects. I do all partition work with BootIt NG.
It doesn't make sense to put BIOS code on the HD because a PC needs to be able to start the boot process from the BIOS even when the HD is defective, or in case you want to boot from a CD or floppy disk. Gary VanderMolen ----- Original Message ----- I may be mistaken, but I think the Compaq partition actually has all of the code for the BIOS or some utilities on it. You may not want to get rid of it. Winterlight wrote: > I am working on Compaq EVO. It has a 40GB DiamondMax hard drive and is > formatted as a single NTFS Primary Active partition. No other partition > is showing. However I suspect there is a small Compaq hidden partition. > Using Partition Magic 8 I can not resize and add any partitions. I want > to resize the existing partition to 30 GB and make a FAT32 10GB Extended > logical partition with the remain 10GB.
