All hard drives do not have unallocated partitions on them. Sometimes
manufacturers load an image of a certain size.
Windows will not allow you to look at most foreign partitions. You can
take a peek at it by booting with a Linux LiveCD. The question is, 'Why
would you want to look at it'? If it has utilities on it, would you want
to modify it?
If the partition is simply empty space, by all means, reclaim it.
Dragonfly
jimpurcell2001 wrote:
>
> I did;t have Partition Magice I wouldn't know that most if not all
> hard drives hava an unallocated 7.8 Megabyte partition on them. Even my
> USB external hard drive has one.
>
> And as long as I am talking about mystery partitions my Dell 250 G hard
> drive has two other mystery drives. I just learned about one of them, a
> 39 Meg utility partition that I can go to when the computer starts up.
> It has several utility progralms on it that test the hard drive or a
> whole set of test programs that test just abouit everything.
>
> But it also has a 4.7 G partition which shows up in PM as a CPM
> partition. I havend't seen any way to get to it. CP/M is of course an
> old operating system that some say MS DOS was was 'copied' from. I
> haven't seen anything in the manual that refers to it.
>
> Jim
>
>
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