https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk/compaq-service-partition/m-p/4344638#M7159 Thanks for answer. I killed it. But what was on this partition? Some diagnostic tools or something else? Tue, 27 Jan 2009 08:13:12 GMT fawrell 2009-01-27T08:13:12Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk/compaq-service-partition/m-p/4344636#M7157 Hi.<BR /><BR /> I bought a new HP 146GB Ultra320 Hot Plug SCSI Hard Drive, and when I inserted it into a server, through fdisk I saw that there alreary is a partition called "Compaq service partition" or so. What is this for a partition? Can I delete it without worrying? Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:43:03 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk/compaq-service-partition/m-p/4344636#M7157 fawrell 2009-01-26T10:43:03Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk/compaq-service-partition/m-p/4344637#M7158 Yes, kill it. Mon, 26 Jan 2009 11:34:41 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk/compaq-service-partition/m-p/4344637#M7158 Uwe Zessin 2009-01-26T11:34:41Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk/compaq-service-partition/m-p/4344638#M7159 Thanks for answer. I killed it. But what was on this partition? Some diagnostic tools or something else? Tue, 27 Jan 2009 08:13:12 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk/compaq-service-partition/m-p/4344638#M7159 fawrell 2009-01-27T08:13:12Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk/compaq-service-partition/m-p/4344639#M7160 Yes:<BR /><BR /><A href="http://docs.hp.com/en/B9903-90011/ch01s03.html" target="_blank">http://docs.hp.com/en/B9903-90011/ch01s03.html</A><BR /><BR /> Tue, 27 Jan 2009 08:30:11 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk/compaq-service-partition/m-p/4344639#M7160 Víctor Cespón 2009-01-27T08:30:11Z