Now I am really puzzled - mystery active partition

Hi all, I used Killdisk from LSoft to erase my harddrive and everything seemed to work fine. Then I opened Active@ Partition Manager and it's showing a 3MB partition labelled X:BOOT. This partition doesn't show in Killdisk, just in Partition Manager, and Partition Manager can't delete it...

Hi We have three PCs connected on a network. One is dual boot with Win7 and Win10 (very recently sorted with help from Gregrocker) whilst the other two are both Win7 only with no System Reserved partition. What I want to do is to have both latter PCs with a System Reserved partition and remove...

Hi Folks, I have contrived to get two active partitions on my PC! After a 2 week old hard drive (D: & F -) died I replaced (now F & G) it with an old drive that had previously been configured with XP and as a boot drive. I don’t think it is acting as boot as drive C: has an active partition and...

I'd been struggling for months to get rid of a malware infection on my Dell XPS 410, I went through the removal drill on 3 different security forums, each time being pronounced clean at the end, and all scans coming up clear -- as they generally had all along. As one forum helper commented, "The...

Hello, I was really hoping somebody could help us. It's a bit of a strange situation we're in but I'll try to keep the facts as concise as possible. Computer running Windows 7 Ultimate x64, 1TB Hard Drive. Yesterday my boyfriend discovered an 'extra' partition on his computer. He'd never seen...