hidden partition

[diaz1023]

I was wondering if anyone can help me retrieve the hidden partition on my harddrive. i have a t40 237394u, which has a 80 gig hard drive, but i only see 45 gigs available. I do want to use rescue and recovery, but i will put that on an external drive to help me just in case i need to recover. I would appreciate some step by step instructions or a way to get it done. i do have norton system works 2005 that has norton ghost, but that is not enabled. i don't have recovery disks, but i can either make them or purchase them according to the posts i have read. any help would be greatly appreciated by a fellow thinkpad user.

thank you and apologies if this is a post that has popped up again

[EOMtp]

You can reallocate space between partitions, including deleting any partitions you do not want.

PartitionMagic (now a Symantec product) is the software of choice for such operations. A free alternative is here:
http://partitionlogic.org.uk/index.html

Good luck!

[diaz1023]

will i have to do anything else, such as reinstalling windows after using this product or will it work without any other issues