Thanks to all who responded about my '8mb of unallocated space' query.  Bill and Frank supplied references which seem to indicate that this is normal.

So I ignored it and went on with the install.  Everything seems to be fine.

Ian Porter
Computer Guys Inc.
Arrowtown
New Zealand
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  Hello Ian:
  I had just ecentely formated a 120 Gig  Maxtor using their MaxBlast software
  and I had the same results ,It gave me a message that it needed the 8MB to
  store settings in ,so after trying to get rid of it just left it alone. This
  is the first time I have seen it also .Hope this helps
  Nancy Drew


  > Now, after formatting, the drive has one large partition but there's
  > also
  > 8mb of 'unallocated space' on the drive.  Anyone know what the possible
  > ramifications of this result could be?
  >
  > I should say that I reformatted it again, with no change.  I also fired
  > up
  > Partition Magic 8, thinking that it might be able to remove this
  > 'unallocated space', but PM seems as much in the dark as I am.
  >
  > Suggestions welcomed.
  >
  > Ian Porter



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