Viewing and deleting partitions using the BIOS?

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Published on 2012-09-03T20:50:05Z Indexed on 2012/09/03 21:40 UTC
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I have an M4A785TD-M EVO Asus motherboard which uses Asus Express Gate for its motherboard (says American Megatrends, Inc at the bottom). I activate it by pressing Del; also says Tab activates BIOS Post but that doesn't seem to do anything.

I went into this expecting to see a breakdown of the partitions. I have a 300GB hard-drive separated into 3 partitions. While it does show SATA for my main hard-drive and my disk drive, it doesn't show the partitions. Is this typical? Do I have to us an OS-based tool to delete the partitions or can I delete using my BIOS?

I tried updating the BIOS through Asus's Update utility but it appears to be broken (connects/disconnects repeatedly). I used HWiNFO32 to get some information:

BIOS Date: 06/30/10

BIOS Version: 2103

EFI BIOS: Not Capable

Tried to update but it directs me to biosagentsplus.com which wants $30 for the download (another question would be how to avoid them).

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