I have found that you can avoid the space by using the disc makers install
utility to install hard drives.
Install and Format as a second/slave drive
or use the ubd boot disc utilities
Aussie John
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----- Original Message -----
From: JIM
To: [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 1:12 PM
Subject: Re: [A-1-Computer_Tech] 7.8 Meg empty partition on most hard drives.
Emile,
> You are getting partitions and unallocated drive space mixed up here.
> I'm not sure who is getting mixed up. I have a perfect knowledge of the
> meanings of unallocated space as opposed to partitioned.
I can't recall who called my attention to my error but it was my error,
though I consider a technicality. :-) A small chunk of unallocated space
looks like a partition on the PM graph. :-) But of course it could be used
to create several partitions.
> Unallocated is is just unused and unable to be used space
I don't think that unallocated means unusable, just not YET allocated. The
7.5 Meg one in question is unusable, the error that PM gives is that you
can't have more than 4 primary partitions.
I just discovered a hard drive with no 7.5 M unallocated space. it's on my
Gateway computer.
> that represents the potential capacity of a drive.until you create
> partitions on the drive. >Unallocated space has no drive letters.
I give up, I used the wrong term, laziness more than anything else, it was
easier than writing 'unallocated space'.
Jim
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