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Hidden partitions are used by some disreputable manufacturers in place of Recovery CDs, also used by disreputable manufacturers but more expensive. Reputable manufacturers distribute real OS CDs with the operating system you paid for intact and licensed. Hidden partitions usually contain a system image of the original setup so that it can be easily restored by the press of a key on bootup. You may be able to access it using a custom program, depending upon the protections assigned to it, and the user permissions of the account that you use to run the program - it wouldn't hurt to try.

The FORMAT command works on logical drives, not partitions, so FORMAT C: will destroy the C: drive, but not the D: drive contained in the same extended partition. Of course, that will rarely happen, as the C: drive is usually created in a Primary partition, which can only contain one logical drive, and the rest of the logical drives on the same hard drive are created in an Extended partition (which can hold 4 logical drives). My server is a bit weird, as it has C on Drive 0, D and E on a second physical drive (Drive 1), and boots from J (on Drive 0), but that's not the norm.Blush | :O

The usual procedure is to use FDISK to create a Primary partition on physical Drive 0, then allocate the rest of the drive to an Extended partition. Primary partitions are bootable, so a logical drive C is created on the Primary partition. Additional logical drives are created in the Extended partition. Each logical drive is then formatted using FORMAT, and the OS is installed on the logical drive in the Primary partition. Running FORMAT on one logical drive will not affect the other logical drives on the same physical drive, or within the same partition.


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