* Alan Steinberg (Alan.Steinberg at Sun.COM) wrote: > I'm at exactly that same place. The Disk Management information shows a > 7.45GB Primary Partition, no File System type listed, 100% free. Sounds > like it might be there for use in recovery perhaps. When I did select > "Delete Partition", a pop-up stated "The selected partition was not > created by Windows and might contain data recognized by other operation > systems." So why did Toshiba create it, and why does it say it may > contain other data when it also shows it is 100% free?
A guess is that the partition contains restore ISO images that can be created by running some sort of utility under Windows. But that's just a guess. > Another interesting thing: My system stated that I could only shrink the > Vista partition to 70GB, even though it indicated that only 18GB was > actually used. A note below said something about "usage by snapshots or > pagefiles" making the shrunken partition bigger than I would think. Yeah, Vista's repartitioning tool is pretty spartan in terms of how much it will let you resize. I've used gparted and other such tools which allow you to resize a lot more. -- Glenn
