Why I have a FAT32 partition and how can I know what is on it?

I tried to free up space on my hard drive and I went to disk management and discovered that I have a FAT32 partition.  This partition has a capacity of 2.9 GB and is currently greater than 90% full.  How can I find on which is stored here?  Is there a reason that this partition is necessary?  I've certainly not implemented (at least not on purpose).   I use Windows XP.

Thank you!

The best thing to do would be to consult your computer's documentation and see if there's information to the service partition.

You can watch the partition with disk editing tools such as Acronis Disk Director or you can use a partition simple editing tool like PtEdit32 from Symantec to change the partition type and you can then watch the partition with Windows Explorer.

Make a note of the type of partition until you change it so that you can then set it back as it was.  The partition is probably a hidden type 1 c, if you want to change for a type of 0C to view it.  A reboot is required for Windows see and mount the partition to make it available to Windows Explorer or disk management tool.

WARNING!

Slippery fingers or user errors when you use the drive or the partition, editing tools can lead to the loss of all data on the disk!  To aid PtEdit32 is quite easy and simple, but it requires a little knowledge and understanding of (or a willingness to learn) how partitions are organized and identified.  You can download PtEdit32 from the Symantec FTP server, which is easy to find with a search on the net: http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0oG7mbsbOxMsWcBUlZXNyoA?p=ftp.symantec.com+ptedit32&fr2=sb-top&fr=yfp-t-501

You can look, but don't delete or modify files inside the service partition, if you do the restore process may fail when you most need!

John

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