You have to find special software for working with partitions. The best which I know is Partition Magic. It allows you see even hidden areas of your hard drive. Usually Dell, HP, Acer and other brands have hidden partitions for repairing and collecting information. After you delete such partition you might need to reinstall the operating system.
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you have to buy a program which is specialist to do that or hack it nicely.
The data hard drive or just hard drive is where all your programs are stored when your computer is shut down. Every progam you see on your computer is stored on the hard drive. That's why the bigger the hard drive the more programs you can put on your computer.
It will look like a regular hard disk drive with the solid-state components hidden in plain sight.
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To detect an undetected hard drive, first, check the physical connections by ensuring that the power and data cables are securely connected to both the hard drive and the motherboard. Next, access the BIOS or UEFI settings during startup to see if the drive is recognized there. If the drive still doesn't appear, consider using disk management tools within the operating system or third-party software to scan for unallocated or hidden drives. Additionally, updating drivers and checking for hardware issues might help in recognizing the drive.
Typicly, in a majority of PC's, The main drive of a computer, the default storage and boot location is the C:/ Drive.You can See this on "My Computer" option.Default Hard Drive: C:/
You can save a hidden recovery partition either on your hard drive or on a flash drive, all it is a backup in case your computer ever crashes. To make it you should be able to choose to create a recovery on your computers system settings.
It affects the saved data on your hard drive to see this you can see other profiles on your hard drive. And if your wondering you can't cause permeant damage to your hard drive you just may loose progress you had on that game
An encrypted hard disk is a disk that has been coded in order for it not to be burned.
Yes it does and its brings its hard drive hidden inside it and 3 months of Xbox live .
From what I have found online you first need to make sure that it is a hard drive problem. If it is determined that it is a hard drive problem you can check out ezinearticles.com to see what advice he has to fix it.