Minor problem.  I wanted to prepare a new HDD for use in an XP system so I
thought I'd find out how to do it 'by the book', for future reference.

Information gleaned from the net seemed to indicate the use of Windows XP
Disk Management.

So I hooked the new drive up to my system (without formatting it first, as
per instructions), opened up Disk Management and formatted the drive with
NTFS and one partition.  Simple.  Or so I thought.

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
Computer Guys Inc.
Arrowtown
New Zealand
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