DELL Latitude D620 - How to delete the Hidden Partition

Hi,
I bough a DELL latitude from DFS one year back. After little investigation I understand this can not be done with the hidden partition.

So the hidden partition is not useful any more, and it is 6/8 gb out of 80gb. Is there any method, to get rid of that hidden partition which is not useful. The hidden partition was not visible during a fresh install of XP from CD.

I am ready to install XP again as I am having XP CD which DELL sent me along with this machine.

 

Cheap way: Back up all your data off your hard drive. Download Darik's Boot and Nuke, burn the CD/DVD and boot into it. Type 'quick' and then let it run for a few minutes. You may have to disable your laptop's card reader in BIOS if the Boot and Nuke CD freezes when booting.

Note that Boot and Nuke erases everything on your computer's hard drive.

What do you mean?

 

I wouldn't run DBAN if you like your laptop as is. You should be able to go into Disk Management and delete the partition there.

 

Will Try that

recovering from hidden partition. This is only used for first start-up.


I appreciate your help.

 

I like this way than DBAN as it is simple and I know it. Till now I have never used DBAN.
I think I tried this, Will check one more time. The hidden partition is not at all visible from disk management tools (windows built in). Do I need do any thing special to find that partition.

I appreciate your help.

 

I'm a couple days late on this, but, you could use a Dell reinstall disk for Latitudes -- I know I've got a few dozen XP and Vista disks left over from the d620/30 line.