yronnen Posted August 2, 2008 Share Posted August 2, 2008 Hi,I have a new laptop that comes with some pre-installed restore utility (from LG). I want to do a clean install but for some reason I cannot remove the hidden partition. Partition magic 8.05 wouldn't even do anything to the disk it says that it's has errors and the vista installation cd does remove partitions, but does not show me the hidden one.Do you have any suggestion for a tool that can format the hard drive completely?Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigeratiPrime Posted August 3, 2008 Share Posted August 3, 2008 I know Acronis Disk Director can work with hidden volumes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yronnen Posted August 3, 2008 Author Share Posted August 3, 2008 I know Acronis Disk Director can work with hidden volumes.Thanks, any specific version? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted August 3, 2008 Share Posted August 3, 2008 If the problem is just that of removing all partitions, all you need is to "zero out" the MBR partition table.Have you any bootable media (like a BartPE, a boot Dos floppy or CD or anything like that)?Or is the laptop currently booting?To what OS?If you can boot to a NT/2K/XP/Vista or some kind of PE, all you have to do is use MBRFIX:http://www.sysint.no/nedlasting/mbrfix.htmMbrFix /drive <num> clean Delete all partitions in MBRDownload from here:http://www.sysint.no/Download/tabid/162/la...US/Default.aspxjaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigeratiPrime Posted August 8, 2008 Share Posted August 8, 2008 I know Acronis Disk Director can work with hidden volumes.Thanks, any specific version?Both Home (Suite) and Server will work.If the problem is just that of removing all partitions, all you need is to "zero out" the MBR partition table.Have you any bootable media (like a BartPE, a boot Dos floppy or CD or anything like that)?jaclazIf that's the case I think he could just use Diskpart and the 'clean' option on the disk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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