HDD question for Laptop

[goodegg]

I was trying to install Window to my Dell C610 laptop the other day and I liked to format my harddisk. they is 8mb unpartitioned space which I would like to format also but it is not allowing me to do so. Anybody see anything like that? And what to do? Kindly ask for you advice.

 

[corkyg]

That is most often a hidden partition that contains system recovery stuff. You may be trying to burn your bridge behind you.

 

[fuxxociety]

that's not "recovery stuff" It's the area in the HD where the HD controller stores partition info, bad block locations, etc. It's considered unusable space because if you were to overwrite it, you would essentially be removing all the data location "shortcuts" from the drive thereby rendering it useless.

 

[fbrdphreak]

Originally posted by: fuxxociety
that's not "recovery stuff" It's the area in the HD where the HD controller stores partition info, bad block locations, etc. It's considered unusable space because if you were to overwrite it, you would essentially be removing all the data location "shortcuts" from the drive thereby rendering it useless.

What he said
Don't worry about it, that is there on any formatted HDD

 

[Paperlantern]

i'll third that =)

 

[jkj]

I also concur