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Subject:	8 meg that is held back: was: Re: Newbie with XP Home SP2
From:	Richard Glazier <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Fri, 8 Oct 2004 01:15:32 -0400
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What is the 8 Megs for, and what happens if you use something like
Acronis PartitionExpert(2003) to partition a drive and it does not know
it is for Win-XP, just that it is "scheduled" to be NTFS?

                                          Rick Glazier

From: "Joe Lore"
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> Also drives with NTFS partitioning will not show 8 meg that is held back in
> reserve by the OS when setup.
> So they seem to be mis sized when they really are not.

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