In what way difficult, please?
With pre-installed software that resists formatting for at least one
partition. I have not seen this often, but I have seen it. (The idea, I
believe, is allegedly to make using the drive to back-up Windows more
automatic.)
And how does this pre-installed software get executed?
In Windows, you run it and it backs your data up for you, I believe. (I have
seen it done, but never done it.)
> Especially on a Linux box?
It doesn't - but it blocks anything else and makes formatting the whole drive
difficult.
I think I know what you are referring to here... external drives such as
the Maxtor One-Touch. These are still usable, but yes that hidden
"helpful" partition can be a headache if you want to reformat the entire
drive. It takes a little wrangling regardless of OS to reclaim the
entire drive from one of these specialty drives - much like laptops with
a hidden recovery partition.
C.
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