Hi Jesse,
Because the Hibernation partition is an OEM partition, you may
have to contact the Original Equipment Manufacturer to resolve
this issue.
As far as I know there are lots of third-party tools that can
delete a partition. You may want to have a look at Partition
Magic <http://www.powerquest.com/partitionmagic/>
Please feel free to let us know if you have any further questions
or concerns regarding to this issue.
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>It depends on the type of your external drive. You'll
>have to find out for yourself.
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>"Jesse" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Thanks! Do I need to boot from to Win98 if the partition I
want to remove
>is
>> not on my primary drive? I'm running XP on my primary drive;
I'm trying to
>> get a clean reformat of an external drive.
>>
>>
>> "Pegasus (MVP)" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> >
>> > "Jesse" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> > news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> > > I'm trying to reformat an old OEM laptop disk. It
currently shows:
>> > >
>> > > Partition 1: Healthy (Hibernation partition)
>> > > Partition 2: E:, Healthy (Active)
>> > >
>> > > If I right-click on the hibernation partition, I don't get
the option
>> > delete
>> > > it.
>> > >
>> > > If I try to reformat the other partition, I get a message
saying "The
>> > > operation did not complete because the partition or volume
is not
>> enabled.
>> > > To enable the partition or volume, restart the computer."
I restarted
>> the
>> > > computer, but nothing changed. (This drive is mounted in
an external
>USB
>> > > enclosure.)
>> > >
>> > > Is there a way to just say "blow everything away, reformat
this disk
>as
>> > > though it were brand new"?
>> > >
>> > > All help is *much* appreciated!
>> > >
>> > >
>> >
>> > Did you turn off your PC's hibernation function?
>> >
>> > If you did, and if you are still unable to deal with this
>> > partition, then you can use brute force:
>> > - Boot the machine with a Win98 boot disk from
www.bootdisk.com.
>> > - Run delpart.exe from
http://www.russelltexas.com/delpart.htm to
>> > blow the partition away. Be careful to select the right
partition to
>> > delete!
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
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