Partition Magic 8 again

[dainova]

Hi,

I have 100G on my laptop (showing like 96G in explorer), and I did one more partition for data ,leaving C for system, results i have:
c___NTFS 20G active primary
d___NTFS 65.5G none logical
* Extended 75G none primary
* Unalocated 9G none logical (used 0, unsued 0!)

so my c+d give me only 85G, why I got this unalocated 9G I didn't ask for.

Tx

 

[Nodsu]

Well, how did you "do one more partition"? Did you specify the full size available?

Maybe try resizing your new partition to fill all the space?

 

[PBNinja101]

you can never fill a harddrives space. Windows creates a boot partition on the harddrive so the BIOS can read the drive and boot to it.

What your laptop may have is a backup partition where the manufacturer may have made it possible to recover the HD if your primary partition has a critical failure, do not allocate unless you are sure the space isnt being used anonymously.

Simon

 

[Nodsu]

"Unallocated" means exactly that - thars is no partition there. Any weird partitions would show up as "unknown". Unless someone has deleted the recovery partition or whatever happened to be there before.