Satellite L655-178 - which partition will be available to start?

Hello

My Satellite L655-178 comes with active EFI Insyde H2O Bios. Apparently this BIOS needs to access the HARD disk before starting Windows. Nobody knows in which partition occurs this pre-start HARD drive access?

My laptop has 3 partitions on a 500 GB HARD drive
-400 MB Hidden Partition (without drive letter assigned)
-C: Windows Partition
D: a Partition of data (with HDD recovery)

My guess is the Insyde H2O Bios to access the Pre-boot 400 MB hidden partition?

Am I wrong?

Thanks :)

Hey,.

Your question is interesting, but may I ask why is it important? Serious errors on your laptop?

Well, first of all, you know that the 400 MB hidden partition is not the boot partition. It contains only the files of Windows recovery environment and cannot be accessed during boot I think. Just read this article:
http://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Recovery_Environment

As you can see, it s a Windows feature and has nothing to do with Toshiba.

In any case, the start player C: partition will be accessible for on this Windows partition is installed. All that s!

But until Windows starts, the BIOS HARD drive search internal, but it doesn't have access to all data of it. The BIOS simply check if an internal HARD drive is installed and it is indifferent to what you have on it of the partitions.

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