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[edggedgg]

I just bought a new Gateway computer that had vista 32 bit preinstalled, I installed Vista 64 bit on a new partition but now I cannot get rid of the partition that Gateway had those preinstalled files on, I tried using Acronis Disk Director to format and merge it with another partition but no matter what I do it always reappears, I've tried deleting it using Vista's built in disk utility, but so far no luck.

Thanks for any help.

 

[wahnula]

Darik's Boot and Nuke

http://dban.sourceforge.net/

can nuke anything just USE WITH CARE

Tony

"If it can't take it, I don't want it

 

[edgg]

I downloaded Dban and tried use, it shows you the partitions but it does not tell you anything so you don't know cannot tell what partition you're looking at, I didn't bother to use it, I wouldn't like to nuke my active partition.

 

[wahnula]

Chicken! edgg, "HELP" is not the best possible title for getting good answers...I would recommend something like "How do I delete Recovery partition" or something more descriptive of your problem. Just trying to help. I researched how to delete this partition, from another forum:

http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/48032/

1) Boot the system off of the Windows install CD
2) When you get to the partitioning part of the install, delete the offending partition
3) Download freeware utility "EditBINI" from

http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/utilities.html

4) Unzip it onto a DOS/Win98 bootdisk
4) Boot the system with the DOS/Win98 bootdisk and run EditBINI
5) Update the partition number for your Windows install to reflect your system partition's new number (probably reduced it by one)

That's it. The EISA partition is now gone but you will still have the empty space where it used to be. To get rid of that use Ghost to do a partition dump of the system partition to your Ghost server, rather than a disk dump. Then pull the image back onto the system and the empty space will be gone.


Tony

"If it can't take it, I don't want it

 

[electronicsfreak]

I see this question asked a lot. Wahnula , you should make an faq on that subject for people to refer to. I think that would be a worthy faq very needed right now.

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