hidden partition

It looks like there's a hidden partition that can't be erased with standard routines.

In some systems, there may be hidden partitions used for system recovery that reduce the capacity available to the end user.

There were no fancy hidden partitions or secret cubbyholes.

Accessing that hidden partition brings it into currency in the OS.

It includes a fingerprint reader for added security, and a useful disaster-recovery tool that runs on a hidden partition.

What they have is they have the notion of a hidden partition within a TrueCrypt volume.

Some of these places can include "memory, slack space, hidden directories, bad blocks, alternate data streams, (and) hidden partitions."

You can get it all back from the hidden partition anyway, or download it from IBM, not that you would want to.

GNU fcrypt is a disk encryption software in development, that allow many hidden partitions and give you plausible deniability.

Oh, and the last thing is, in TrueCrypt 6, they now support a hidden OS where you're actually able to hide an OS in - remember how they used to have a hidden partition?

In mid-2005 a hidden partition on the hard drive, accessible at boot via the BIOS or within Windows via a utility is used instead of recovery media for many VAIO laptops.