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Hidden EISA Configuration Partiton

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by jfitz

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How do I access a "hidden partition" on my HP Pavillion. This
partition shows up in Disk manager as a "EISA
Configuration" partition while running WIN2K Pro. This
partition is designed to be accessed at boot up for a system
restore, I want to write all this data to cd so I can reclaim
the 4.39 GB to is taking up.

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by mr. ezekial transistor

Partition Magic is good for such things. You can copy the partition or resize it because it probably doesn't take up all 4.3 gigs. Otherwise I don't know what file system HP uses there but you could use a boot disk, use FDISK, make it Active and boot off it and copy it.

by jfitz

I was able to get thepartition to show up and be accessable by using "Disk Masnager" and assign a drive letter. This allowed me to copy the data off and reclaim the patrition as an additional 4 GB partition.

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