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Question: Do these laptops that NewEgg sell have a hidden restore partition like most laptops do these days? I think these are normally accessible via some F-ke
by kamjam 14y ago
Question: Do these laptops that NewEgg sell have a hidden restore partition like most laptops do these days? I think these are normally accessible via some F-key setting on bios startup... so not very difficult unless you have deleted this as well...
- inportb 14y agoConsidering that most Windows machines ship with MBR-partitioned disks, which limit you to 4 primary partitions each, it is not difficult to imagine somebody nuking the whole partition table before setting up. I prefer GPT to logical partitions, so in my case the restore partition would be gone anyway.
- ben0x539 14y agoMan, I hope those restore partitions get wiped before resale too, otherwise I don't see what's stopping me from hardwiring my malware right into those.
- kamjam 14y agoHa, I didn't think of that, I was just thinking about the OP saying people should restore the OS before returning to NewEgg, but very good point!