That refers to Windows2000 setup, which has never been on or near any of my
macines in any way, shape, or form. Not sure that this is the same situation.


From: Andy

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;225822
Setup Reserves Disk Space for Upgrading to Dynamic Disk
Some space at the end of the disk is reserved by Setup in case you
later want to upgrade the disk to a dynamic disk. Dynamic disk
information is saved at the end of the disk. The amount that is
reserved is a minimum of one cylinder, or 1MB, whichever is greater.
One cylinder can be up to 8MB, depending on drive geometry and
translation.

On 27 Jul 2003 20:21:11 GMT, ospam (ChrisJ9876)
wrote:

From: "S.Heenan"

chris wrote:
ChrisJ9876 wrote:

From: chris

I bought yesterday a new 80 G (8M cache) hard drive and when I
tried to
use
Fdisk or Partition Magic to format it both programs showed that
disk
was divided 8M and 76G.

I couldn't delete 8M part which is obviously useless.

Anyway it works but I disabled 8M part of the disk to get off the
letter

showing in Windows 8m hard drive which with its capacity was piece
of rubbish.

Is this the nature of 80G seagate or I bought a faulty disk?

Thanks,

Chris


That's normal. I've got a IBM 40gig drive that Partition Magic shows
7.8meg as unallocated. Can't explain why -- maybe somebody else can.
But it shouldn't show up with a drive letter assigned to it, since
it's unallocated. Not sure what you mean by "disabled it".

I gave up.
Even when I used the the manufacturers formatting software (seagate)
I couldn't get read of 7.8M.
I set up it as unallocated and forget for a while.
I think that probably no one knows what to do with this problem..

Chris

The 8MB partition contains the MFT.

--

The MFT, by definition, is only used by NTFS, and is contained within the
partition, just as the FAT is contained within a FAT or FAT32 partition. The
8meg (or 7.8, or whatever) in question is outside of the other partitions.
In
some cases a partition can be created in it, but usually not, in my
experience,
and I've never been able to add it into an existing one. I suspect it might
be
related to cluster size/number of clusters/boundary alignment, etc., but I
can't say for certain, and so far my searches haven't found an answer. And
8megs out of 40 or 60 gigs isn't really a burning concern, other than
curiosity.