Today I ran a deep scan of my hard drive with O&O Disk Recovery 4.1 and discovered that it had an FAT32 partition which I was not aware of. Even more alarmingly I discovered that it had a FoxPro file installed on it with text files all in Hungarian. I had never even heard of FoxPro until now. Apparently it is a Microsoft database program from Microsoft. You can imagine my surprise. Can anyone enlighten me what this is all about because I have never partitioned my hard drive. This partition only shows up on a very few Software Recovery programs. It has not been apparent in all the 4 years I have been using the computer. My computer was purchased from new but I am beginning to suspect that my hard drive may have been previously installed on another computer and had this data removed by the manufacturer prior to installing in my computer. How can I determine the location of this data to remove it from my drive? I haven't used this forum before but will try to insert an image to show the files on the partition.

If it is a proprietary machine, { Dell, Gateway, etc.} that is the recovery partition where the recovery system resides for a reinstall to factory specs.

For some reason the image of the files did not register so here is a manual list ..... CAB - Windows Cabinet Archive - Size 203mb CPP - 6 files C/C ++ Source Code - Size 141bytes FRT - FoxPro file - Size 658mb TXT - 117 Text Files - Size 2mb TXT - 1 UTF-8 Text File - Size 4mb ZIP - 3 Zip Archive files - Size 8mb

If you would post what the make of the machine is it would be of help to us. Did you get a restore disk? Were you told to make restore disks?

Per is right. The foxpro is a computer language that was used by Microsoft but has been trashed as of the past year or so. It is based mostly within a DOS type of environment and was used by developers to hide recovery partitions or only be used from recovery discs to reformat and reinstall the operating system of some branded OEM computer manufacturers. Why there were Hungarian languaged files on there is beyond me unless the PC was originally put together in some obscured factory there and then shipped elsewhere for final assembly.....or at the least was assembeled where you are located by a Hungarian ran out-sourced shop! The only way to remove the hidden partition is by a complete reformat by a full installation CD other than the one that came with that computer as it is coded to not delete that partition. In The Matters Of Style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, Stand Like A Rock "People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."

Leave the 'recovery' partition alone, It might come in very handy in the future.

Thank you for your prompt reply. It is an Evesham Technology (now in liquidation) computer which has installed on it PC Angel Software which gives two options, the first is “Factory settings recovery with data backup” this is the same as Non-Destructive System Recovery, the second is “Factory settings recovery” this will format the hard disk and then copy across the original download (i.e. including all drivers and applications). I have to say that the text files on the partition which I have examined seem completely irrelevant as regards recovery, especially as it is all written in Hungarian! I personally do not think these files are anything to do with restoring to factory settings. When the computer boots it shows PC Angel on the very first screen that loads. It is unfortunate that this forum does not link to image files because then I would have been able to show you a list of all the information on the text files.