OEM Partition on secondary hard drive?


  1. Posts : 3
    Windows 7 Ultimate
       #1

    OEM Partition on secondary hard drive?


    I am setting up a secondary slave drive for photo storage and want to know if it is normal to have it automatically create an area of 181mgs for the (Healthy (active, OEM partition). I wanted all the drive space dedicated to it. Its only 181 megs out of 1.3TB, but just wanted to know if that is normal.
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  2. Posts : 11,408
    ME/XP/Vista/Win7
       #2

    Sounds like you are a used HDD, which has not been cleaned.

    Can you post a screen shot of Disk management?
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  3. Posts : 3
    Windows 7 Ultimate
    Thread Starter
       #3

    Its a new HD


    Its a new HD.. but I started to clone it with a WD app and I think that put it on. I need to find a way do get rid of the partition. Or find out if it's suppose to be there.
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  4. mjf
    Posts : 5,969
    Windows 7x64 Home Premium SP1
       #4

    If you have no data on the drive then you can delete both partitions using Windows Disk Management (type in search bar) then format as primary NTFS. Assign a drive letter eg, P.
    If you have data the I would use free Partition Wizard. Delete the first partition and resize the 2nd to the left.
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  5. Posts : 11,408
    ME/XP/Vista/Win7
       #5

    Your screenshot shows four old OEM partitions.
    1) 181mb OEM partition
    2) 63mb OEM partition
    3) 15gb OEM Recovery partition
    4) 450gb Old OS partition
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  6. Posts : 3
    Windows 7 Ultimate
    Thread Starter
       #6

    OEM partition con't


    I am just referring to Disk 1, When I try and right click on the 181mb partition.. it just shows "help" No delete option.
    Do i need to keep it there? Partition magic refers to it as a bootable drive. No I am wondering if I need to put a backup OS on there in a small partition. This drive is for just photo/video files.

    FYI, The demo version of Partition Magic will let me delete it. I am now just wondering why it was put there and if I need to keep it.
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  7. Posts : 233
    W7 Home Premium 32bit
       #7

    You can safely delete it. The boot and active flags are present on C:, so you won't have a problem.
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  8. mjf
    Posts : 5,969
    Windows 7x64 Home Premium SP1
       #8

    Hardwhere said:
    I am just referring to Disk 1, When I try and right click on the 181mb partition.. it just shows "help" No delete option.
    Do i need to keep it there? Partition magic refers to it as a bootable drive. No I am wondering if I need to put a backup OS on there in a small partition. This drive is for just photo/video files.

    FYI, The demo version of Partition Magic will let me delete it. I am now just wondering why it was put there and if I need to keep it.
    I suggest you use Partition Wizard (well regarded on this Forum).
    FYI: When working on your OS partition using PW boot CD is recommended. When working on Disk 1 the installed Mini Tool is what I would use for convenience.
    Best Free Partition Manager Freeware and free partition magic for Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Vista and Windows XP 32 bit & 64 bit. MiniTool Free Partition Manager Software Home Edition.
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