arturiusrex
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My Acer Aspire notebook, which runs on Vista, has two 500GB hard drives. Since disk 0 already had four primary partitions I moved one of them to the other drive to make room for a new partition where I could dual install XP. However, when I divided 5GB off the third partition for the XP OS I found that the remainder of the partition, around 300GB, was still of the type 'compaq setup' which has no letter and therefore cannot be used for data. The partition is empty and wiped but every time I try to change it to a regular primary it reverts to the hidden compaq type.
Is it possible that the resistant type designation is set in the mbr and, if so, would it be possible to put things right using EasyBCD? Any and all advice would be very much appreciated.
This is my first post (ever) so I apologise in advance if I have not followed the proper protocol.
Is it possible that the resistant type designation is set in the mbr and, if so, would it be possible to put things right using EasyBCD? Any and all advice would be very much appreciated.
This is my first post (ever) so I apologise in advance if I have not followed the proper protocol.