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
> Computer Guys Inc.
> Arrowtown
> New Zealand
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