Yet another article that really doesn't tell what the partition is or
how to use it:

" ... special EISA partition either in FAT or NTFS file system that
contains system recovery utility to rollback to factory settings and/or
diagnostic tools"

Yes, well .... which is it? Oh, either this or that or possibly even
both? Do you want to try for "neither"? Well thank you for being so
specific.

And, also, this is just wrong or, really, BS:

"All OEM computers, desktop or notebook PCs from Dell, HP, Lenovo, IBM,
Acer, ASUS, Sony, Fujitsu, Toshiba and many more probably comes with
special EISA partition"

Oh, I love that .... "ALL of them PROBABLY come with ....."; such a
definitive statement. Well, most Toshiba laptops do NOT have a
partition like this, but this particular one does.

The article does give an approach (not the only one, by any means) for
getting rid of it (that is the least of my interest, however .... "ZAP"
will get rid of EVERYTHING). I think that partition magic could get rid
of it also (if the drive is installed on another machine running XP).

But my interest is in what it is, not how to get rid of it. And,
finding that out, how to use it.

[I SUSPECT that it may be a diagnostic partition; it is, as I mentioned
earlier, too small to be a factory restore partition.]


AJL wrote:
> Barry Watzman <WatzmanNOSPAM@neo.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> The bottom line is it's not solved at all.
>
> How about this?
>
> http://www.mydigitallife.info/2008/0...tion-in-vista/