Scary Mysterious Drive I Don't Know About!!!! Help!!!!

aimeeandbeatles · Apr 08, 2009, 12:39 PM

Did the title get your attention? Good.

I installed a new program, and for some reason there's a second hard drive on my computer that I don't know about. There's no drive letter or label.

The capacity is 4745 MB, 0% is used, FAT32, and non-bootable.

Any idea?

Cutlass · Apr 08, 2009, 12:42 PM

take a screen shot so we can get a better idea of it.

aimeeandbeatles · Apr 08, 2009, 12:45 PM

I was trying programs to see if any of them would detect my drive's SMART thingy. Oh, and the word that was partly cut off is "FAT32 Hidden"

EDIT: Wait, I remember when they first tried this as a loaner for me, the BIOS was passworded just before it tried to get into Vista. And when I was messing around in the BIOS trying to see if it had a recovery partition, it *did*, but that was passworded too. And when I got this one as my permanent computer, I noticed th=at the recovery partition was gone, as I was trying to do a fresh install. COULD THIS BE IT????

Cutlass · Apr 08, 2009, 12:59 PM

It looks to me like it's just a leftover piece of the drive that wasn't included for one reason or another in the active partition. It might have been set aside for recovery use.

aimeeandbeatles · Apr 08, 2009, 01:36 PM

Here's in Windows Computer Management

Genocidicbunny · Apr 08, 2009, 03:40 PM

Yep, its just a piece of your HDD that wasnt formatted somewhy.

Maniacal · Apr 08, 2009, 06:28 PM

Awww shoot, you've uncovered my secret spying operation on you!

Er, I mean, that's strange. I have no idea what it is so I'll go with GB.

Turner · Apr 08, 2009, 08:12 PM

It's a recovery partition, I bet.

Genocidicbunny · Apr 08, 2009, 09:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Turner

It's a recovery partition, I bet.

Too small. Unless there's some serious compression going on there. Vista recovery disk actually takes up 1.5 DVD's, so the recovery partition would be more than that. 10 GB maybe, most likely something like 15.

aimeeandbeatles · Apr 09, 2009, 04:58 AM

There was a recovery partition, but the tech guy deleted it because it was passworded, or something like that. So that might be the remains of it.

Thunderfall · Apr 10, 2009, 09:27 AM

My laptop has a partition with no name too. I assumed it's recovery partition.

lndm · Apr 10, 2009, 04:08 PM

Does it have a filesystem on it? (doesn't seem to)

It is a type FAT32 Hidden, which is not uncommon for recovery partitions and it also seems to be the first partition, which suggests the same thing. It is also the right size, IMO.

You might try accessing it in all the usual ways (including using any disks that came with the system). If you're bored one day as a last ditch effort, you might do a quick format (FAT32) and use an undelete utility on it.

Quote:

Originally Posted by aimeeandbeatles

Did the title get your attention?

I thought you'd plugged in a printer with a card reader.

Genocidicbunny · Apr 10, 2009, 06:16 PM

Can you access the partition from My Computer?

aimeeandbeatles · Apr 10, 2009, 06:17 PM

No.

Anyways, according to both screenshots, there's nothing in there anyways. So there's nothing to look at. Eventually I'll probably just delete it.

Apr 08, 2009, 12:39 PM	#1
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aimeeandbeatles watermelon Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Aperture Science Laboratories Posts: 12,123 Images: 10	I was trying programs to see if any of them would detect my drive's SMART thingy. Oh, and the word that was partly cut off is "FAT32 Hidden" EDIT: Wait, I remember when they first tried this as a loaner for me, the BIOS was passworded just before it tried to get into Vista. And when I was messing around in the BIOS trying to see if it had a recovery partition, it did, but that was passworded too. And when I got this one as my permanent computer, I noticed th=at the recovery partition was gone, as I was trying to do a fresh install. COULD THIS BE IT???? __________________ Note: I'm female. Don't forget that. \| The Petty Archives \| Let's Play: Portal 2 "When he goes to bed at night, Chuck Norris checks under his bed for aimeeandbeatles." -- choxorn Last edited by aimeeandbeatles; Apr 08, 2009 at 12:53 PM.

Apr 08, 2009, 12:59 PM	#4
Cutlass Ideas are Like Stars Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: US of A Posts: 32,097 Images: 6	It looks to me like it's just a leftover piece of the drive that wasn't included for one reason or another in the active partition. It might have been set aside for recovery use. __________________ Ideas Are Like Stars. Come visit us again! Learn the Basics of Money HERE More Money has been Lost Because of Four Words than at the Point of a Gun. Those words are "This Time is Different." Taking from the poor and giving to the rich is Why Nations Fail In American we call that Reaganomics.

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aimeeandbeatles watermelon Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Aperture Science Laboratories Posts: 12,123 Images: 10	No. Anyways, according to both screenshots, there's nothing in there anyways. So there's nothing to look at. Eventually I'll probably just delete it. __________________ Note: I'm female. Don't forget that. \| The Petty Archives \| Let's Play: Portal 2 "When he goes to bed at night, Chuck Norris checks under his bed for aimeeandbeatles." -- choxorn

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