If you saw the empty one normally, the following does not apply.
(If you saw it with special tools, read on.)

If it is very small, it is something MS put there for future drive changes.
(Say something like 7 - 8  M or something.)

                                                        Rick Glazier


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Malcolm"
i have windows xp and ie6.0. my hard drive has 3 partitions where 1 is completely empty. do i have to do any special maintenance on 
the
empty partition. thank you. 

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