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Help! How-to - remove IBM pre-load partition from HDD
Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 11:08 am
by jamess
I have a 40 GB disk which I've mounted into an external housing to serve me as external disk via usb/firewire. I have formatted the disk but once I run the disk management, there's still IBM preload partition eating 6 GB ob disk space.
How can I get rid of it, possibly not having to buy/download additional software?
Thanks
Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 11:47 pm
by yossarian
If you mean the rescue partition, then you can go into the BIOS on boot, and tell it to recover that lost space.
Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 2:30 am
by jamess
The partition on which all the preloaded software. Don't know if that's called the rescue partition. However, this disk is from previous thinkpad and is now in an external enclosure as ext. disk. I can not access that via bios...
Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 2:59 am
by KristianJ
Just pop the drive back into your TP then and access via BIOS
I'm gonna have to do that with my old T40 drive, but it'll only take a few mins.
Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 3:02 am
by jamess
Is there no other way?! Say... a program that is capable of proper disk format and partition removal...
Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 5:32 am
by Kyocera
For my formatting tasks I use "Partition Commander" it will clean off the disk, completely to include the HPA.
Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 8:05 am
by jamess
Thank you very much.
Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 11:41 pm
by vinny77
How about just delete that drive them resize the primary drive to the full compacity then reformat.
you you could just wipe the entire primary drive.
Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 11:14 am
by shalliday
I use Acronis Disk Director and so far I have been very pleased with this product for disk management including reformatting and partions.