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Originally Posted by spearball
I'd just like to know why is it that in windows when you format a hard drive windows always leaves over an 8 or 9 mb unallocated space?
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It leaves the 8mb space by design, not by any kind of limitation like said above! Its for if you want to change to dynamic disk later.
From Microsoft, if anybody wants to argue the point!
SYMPTOMS
During Setup, if you choose to create a partition that uses the remaining space on a disk, you cannot use the maximum space available on the disk.
For example, if you choose to create a 4096-MB partition on a disk that has only 4096 MB available, the actual partition that is created may be 4095 MB or less in size.
CAUSE
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.