EISA Partition

Hi, An EISA partition has appear on an external harddrive and I can't delete it. This harddrive is only used to store data, it has no OS.

How can I remove it and merge with the rest of the Disk


Chris

 

Hello Chris,

How have you tried to delete the EISA partition?

The most straightforward way would be to:

Off load whatever data is on the non EISA partition.

Use XP's Disk Management console to delete all the partitions on the HD

Use Disk Management to re create the HD's partition.

To get into Disk Management:
Right click My Computer > Manage > Disk Management > right click the drive parition areas > either delete or create.


You wite: "An EISA partition has appear on an external harddrive"

To see what created it or keeping you from deleting it, paste a copy of your boot.ini here.

Right click My Computer > Properties > Advanced tab > Startup and Recovery > Settings > Edit under System Startup. Copy the boot.ini to notepad.

Regards - Charles

 

You can't right click on the EISA partition, well you can but you only have the help option. I suspect that it was not created by my computer as I was visiting offices all last week. This morning is the first time I've seen it. My boot.ini file is as following which I think is normal

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS= "Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect /forceresetreg


I have downloaded a couple of different partitioning tools and they don't see the EISA partition...

Chris

 

Hi Chris,

Yes, your boot.ini is normal. I was operating under the assumption it was created on your system.

Can you format the HD and then go thru the creating partition exercise after off loading your data?

Thru Disk Management > top section > right click on drive letter > format.

Regards - Charles

 

Can't do that, The EISA partition does not have a letter asigned to it... I'll just keep searching the web, something is bound to pop up.

 

The drive doesn't have a letter? If it doesn't, assign one.

Regards - Charles

 

Hi Chris,

Should have written: Format the drive.

Left click My Computer > right click the drive > and format.

Regards - Charles