[H] Disk overlay?
Using Partitiom Magic there is 7.8mb unallocated showing before before the partition information. Is that a disk overlay program? What will it do to me in the future if left there? Sam
RE: [H] Disk overlay?
Wouldn't have thought is was a disk overlay. I take it you didn't create the partitions, it's probably just the way they were created. You usually end up with an odd small space at the end of the drive that you can't get the last partition to use, just because of the way disks and file systems work. If it was an overlay program PM would probably show it as a partition but of an unrecognised format. There should be a legend somewhere to tell you what colour that would be. Personally I wouldn't worry about it. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sam Franc Sent: 07 February 2006 19:09 To: 'The Hardware List' Subject: [H] Disk overlay? Using Partitiom Magic there is 7.8mb unallocated showing before before the partition information. Is that a disk overlay program? What will it do to me in the future if left there? Sam
Re: [H] Disk overlay?
On Tue, February 7, 2006 12:09 pm, Sam Franc wrote: Using Partitiom Magic there is 7.8mb unallocated showing before before the partition information. Is that a disk overlay program? What will it do to me in the future if left there? Sam It may not be an overlay - if the drive was originally partitioned with Windows (during setup or with Disk Management), it reserves at least 1 MB free (I've usually seen 8 MB) on the disk right at the end -- so it can be upgraded from a basic to a dynamic disk. This must be done to use Windows' software RAID/JBOD capability. I don't think Windows' own tools will even show that there's empty space. Jamie -- Jamie Furtner [EMAIL PROTECTED] I aim to misbehave - Malcom Reynolds (Serenity movie) It's not safe... For them. - River Tam (Serenity movie)
RE: [H] Disk overlay?
Exactly ;) It should be ~8MB on each windows NTFS drive. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jamie Furtner Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 2:44 PM To: The Hardware List Subject: Re: [H] Disk overlay? On Tue, February 7, 2006 12:09 pm, Sam Franc wrote: Using Partitiom Magic there is 7.8mb unallocated showing before before the partition information. Is that a disk overlay program? What will it do to me in the future if left there? Sam It may not be an overlay - if the drive was originally partitioned with Windows (during setup or with Disk Management), it reserves at least 1 MB free (I've usually seen 8 MB) on the disk right at the end -- so it can be upgraded from a basic to a dynamic disk. This must be done to use Windows' software RAID/JBOD capability. I don't think Windows' own tools will even show that there's empty space. Jamie -- Jamie Furtner [EMAIL PROTECTED] I aim to misbehave - Malcom Reynolds (Serenity movie) It's not safe... For them. - River Tam (Serenity movie)
