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[zirk]

Anyone?, Im trying to delete the OEM Partition on an external Drive, Disk Mananger in Win 7 lets me do most things but not this?

[Plomien]

Do you need the data on it?
If not format the hdd and delete the partition that way
failing that use http://www.partition-tool.com/

[zirk]

Already tried formatting, its still there as an OEM Partition, presumably cos its hidden?

Normally I wouldn't worry about it as its only 100mb in size, but Im trying to ghost another HD image to the external drive and its in the way, if that makes sense.

Will have a play with partition tool,

thanks 

[Plomien]

try this http://www.findmysoft.com/how-to/Increase-Partition-Size-in-Windows-7/

[zirk]

try this http://www.findmysoft.com/how-to/Increase-Partition-Size-in-Windows-7/

Thats pretty much what I was doing before Plomien, lets you mess with Primary and Secondary Partitions but wont let you mess with OEM hiddens files.

Just downloaded and tried Esasus Partition Manager which lets you delete it (or it thinks it does) but when you go back and check under windows, it still there?
 

[zirk]

Still need some help with this, Anyone?   

[Kevin Wood]

I normally reach for a Linux boot disk and nuke every partition on the drive at this point. The windows tools have a habit of hiding things that they think you don't want to see.

Kevin

[zirk]

I normally reach for a Linux boot disk and nuke every partition on the drive at this point. The windows tools have a habit of hiding things that they think you don't want to see.

Kevin

Nice thought Kevin, but I dont have any Linux stuff with me at the moment, think I may have cracked it anyway, just found another uninitialised Sata Drive so I going to ghost its image across and see if that gets rid of it.

Chris. 

[RexNoctis]

It sounds like you've got it sorted but the method I've used in the past is the Windows 7 installation disk.

Boot from the DVD as if you are intalling Windows, at the point where it detects disks and asks you which drive you want to install on, use the additional tools to delete all partitions on the drive. Windows will warn you there is a recovery partition but will delete it anyway!