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Leaving the Diagnostic Partition intact when Prepping Hard Drive
Description
Generally, most hardware comes with a diagnostic partition set as partition 1. Many customers are removing this and in doing so are limiting the tools they have to repair issues that arise. It is possible to create a Diskpart preinstall tasks that remove all the partitions from the drive but the hidden partition.
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Article History:
Created on: 8/17/2013 Last Update on: 5/7/2023
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