You're using Disk Manager to view primary and extended partitions on a suspect's drive. The program reports the extended partition's total size as larger than the sum of the sizes of logical partitions in this extended partition. What might you infer from this information?

a. The disk is corrupted.

b. There's a hidden partition.

c. Nothing; this is what you'd expect to see.

d. The drive is formatted incorrectly

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Kinsley Buck

28 August, 16:19

You're using Disk Manager to view primary and extended partitions on a suspect's drive. The program reports the extended partition's total size as larger than the sum of the sizes of logical partitions in this extended partition. What might you infer from this information?

a. The disk is corrupted.

b. There's a hidden partition.

c. Nothing; this is what you'd expect to see.

d. The drive is formatted incorrectly

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Clarence Schneider · Answer 1

b. There's a hidden partition.

Explanation:

The hidden partition is a separate section set aside on OEM computer hard drives, often alluded to as the recovery partition and restore partition.

This portion of memory is used by the manufacturer to preserve the data used to restore your computer to its default settings.

This function is particularly useful as it does not involve the CD or DVD of the operating system.