Service Partition

[smvp6459]

Just wondering if anyone has come up with an elegant way to hose the service partition from within Windows XP (they've managed to make it impossible to mess with the partition through XP's usual disk managment tools - so far as I can tell). I upgraded the drive and I still have the original factory drive + drive images, so I'm not interested in wasting 5GB of space for no good reason. I'll try to FDISK it if I don't get a better suggestion.

[christopher_wolf]

Just wondering if anyone has come up with an elegant way to hose the service partition from within Windows XP (they've managed to make it impossible to mess with the partition through XP's usual disk managment tools - so far as I can tell). I upgraded the drive and I still have the original factory drive + drive images, so I'm not interested in wasting 5GB of space for no good reason. I'll try to FDISK it if I don't get a better suggestion.

You have to set the partition to be seen by the OS in the first place before you can hose it. Although, if you are going through the trouble of doing that, you might as well just use FDISK anyway if you have the factory preload images.

Of the three options, Secure, Normal, and Disable; Disable is the one you want.