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HARDDRIVE QUESTION?

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sorehead

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I was messing around with Partion Magic today on my computer and looking at my harddrive I found an entry that I am curious about. It shows my drive as fat32 and the drive size but then has a second entry that says unallocated. Is this normal?
 
Iwill look again but I believe it reported it as around 23 megs and I am thinking also what purpose does it serve? An MBR partition I can understand but just curious as to what it is?
 
It's basically a math thing. When you make a partiton, the os uses a certain number to prep and divide the drive to get it ready for the OS. The OS divides this down as close as it can, to use as much as it can. The left over isn't allocated to the partition. Sometimes you can go into partition magic and resize the partition to be able use it.
 
Originally posted by: redbeard1
It's basically a math thing. When you make a partiton, the os uses a certain number to prep and divide the drive to get it ready for the OS. The OS divides this down as close as it can, to use as much as it can. The left over isn't allocated to the partition. Sometimes you can go into partition magic and resize the partition to be able use it.
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is that safe/recommended?
 
The 8MB unallocated partition is used by Windows 2000 and Windows XP when you convert from Basic Disk to Dynamic Disk.

This is normal, you can't really get rid of it.

In the many gigabytes of hard drive space you have, you are not going to miss 8MB, are you?
 
I have no problem with 8mb, but this is 23mb and why isn't it labeled as such, its notated as just
a *star . And this is Win98se not XP or 2000.
 
Originally posted by: sorehead
I have no problem with 8mb, but this is 23mb and why isn't it labeled as such, its notated as just
a *star . And this is Win98se not XP or 2000.
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is it at the end or begining of the hdd ?
did you fdisk it yourself originally ?


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Originally posted by: sorehead
Yes, I did use fdisk and I am assuming its at the end of the partition.
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do you remember when you did fdisk did you tell it to just use the whole thing or did you enter the number yourself ? (this could be a rounding leftover, for example if you enter 80000 for a 80gb drive you will have some left overs)


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Originally posted by: Abhi
Originally posted by: redbeard1
It's basically a math thing. When you make a partiton, the os uses a certain number to prep and divide the drive to get it ready for the OS. The OS divides this down as close as it can, to use as much as it can. The left over isn't allocated to the partition. Sometimes you can go into partition magic and resize the partition to be able use it.
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is that safe/recommended?
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u really want an extra 8mb of space?
 
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