Invisible Harddrive????

[Dani9000]

I have a problem with the harddrive in my laptop. apperently I have a partition that is 251MB in size. I can see it in my disk management tool, but I cant see it in "my computer" and it has no letter assigned to it. It says its a healthy primary partition. no more information is given. When I right click on it the only option i can choose is to delete it. I would really like to know what it is. I learned of it when i installed windows vista and it asked me what partition i wanted to install it on. If its nothing i would like to delete it because its a waste of space if i cant write to it. I have linked an image of my disk management program with the "invisible HD"

http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/594/hddg6.jpg

THANK YOU ALL WHO HELP!!!

 

[stduc]

Are you saying you can't format it and then assign a drive letter to it?

My first thought is that this is some kind of recovery area. Maybe your manual will give you a clue?

My second thought is that as this represents a mere 0.2% of your drive - It is perhaps best to just live with it? Based on the 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it' principle.

Even if you delete it, you will need to use something like partition magic to join it to your main C partition. If you manage to format it and create a drive D (which you could do by deleting it, it will become unallocated space and you should then be able to format it) What use is a 251MB partition?

I suspect it contains essential Toshiba drivers etc - so as I already mentioned - read your manual.

I have been known to be wrong.

 

[vacunita]

I agree with Stduc, in that it might be a Toshiba recovery or support partition. It might access it when it needs to do something.
Perhaps, if your Toshiba is capable of playing DVD's without loading Windows, it could be the space it keeps to run the Player software or something to that extent.

Without knowing what it is, I would just live with it. Its not a good idea to blindly format a partition.

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Unknown has caused an Unknown Error on Unknown and must be shutdown to prevent damage to Unknown.

 

[wahnula]

Without knowing what it is, I would just live with it. Its not a good idea to blindly format a partition.

Agreed.