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    How do i delete the HPA partition?

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by doughy, May 6, 2007.

  1. doughy

    doughy Notebook Consultant

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    Hi all,

    My friend wants to regain the space used by media direct on a hpa partition, i have looked at goodells.net but i can find the right numbers to change in ptedit. Ive used this before to unhide my restore partition and it worked a charm but there web site has changed so i cant remember what he is suppose to do.
    Any ideas?
     
    doughy, May 6, 2007
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  2. WackyT

    WackyT Notebook Deity

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    I used a utility on the hard drive manufacturer's website to delete the HPA on my E1705's hard drive.
     
    WackyT, May 6, 2007
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  3. doughy

    doughy Notebook Consultant

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    ok i'll have a look for it, thanks and rep to you :)
     
    doughy, May 6, 2007
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  4. MarkMcK

    MarkMcK Notebook Evangelist

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    The Hitachi 'Feature Tool' worked for me, BUT.... no guarantees as this is a very dangerous area for potential 'Oh... No... What happened???!!!@@##'

    Hitachi Feature Tool

    Good Luck

    Mark

    ps BTW Don't forget to 'erase' the Dell boot code first [fixmbr from Recovery Console or the like] or else Dell code may revert everything back during any subsequent reboot into Windows
     
    MarkMcK, May 6, 2007
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    cicdude Newbie

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    MarkMcK , thanks for the posts on this....I just found this after posting a question in another forum....

    I really want to wipe out media direct on my xps m1330. This feature has caused me to reformat to XP TWICE.

    So this feature tool will allow me to completely delete the hidden partitons so that pressing the media direct button on the laptop will do nothing at all ?

    Any help would be appreciated. I plan to ghost it once I get rid of these mediadirect partitions.
     
    cicdude, Jan 8, 2008
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