Formatting options of unpartitioned area 1

[KC78]

When I was reformatting my hardrive, I deleted all the partitions. And it happened so fast that I cannot remember, but I hit something on the keyboard and it created a special F: partition and it said something like special files used by Windows. However, I deleted it because it was the major portion of the hardrive.

So I proceed to do the regular, create c: however, for what ever reason, I left about 200 MB of space to the unpartitioned part (default 8MB I think). What is that part? I've experienced error messages in Windows before that referenced to that space........ Can you help?

 

[linney]

See if these cover what you are referring to. Have a look in your Event Viewer if you are still getting Error Messages. Try and supply any exact message too. Also what is your exact setup? Are we talking about Basic or Dynamic Disks, things like size of drive, number of partitions and size, will help.

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=...rtition&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&scoring=d

Have a look at information that applies to "Cylinder Boundaries" and Windows in some of these links.

http://groups.google.com/groups?sou...q="cylinder+boundary"+"free+space"+windows+xp

HOW TO: Partition and Format a Hard Disk in Windows XP (Q313348)

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q313/3/48.asp

Read the paragraph,
"How to Partition and Format Your Hard Disk by Using Windows XP Setup."


For more help (shows enlargeable screenshots) go here.

http://www.blackviper.com/Articles/OS/InstallXPPro/installxppro1.htm

 

[KC78]

Wow, thanks.... didn't expect an answer so quick. I guess what I gather from the articles above, I do not have to worry about this cylindrical boundary thingy. Formatting the drive wasn't a problem, I just didn't know what the 8 MB was for.... but thanks though.....you must really know how to search google..... : )

 

[micker377]

Is this a "standard" hard drive, or a factory system where the put the factory setup and restore on a "special" partition.