This was one of the first things I noticed during my early XP-Pro installs... I asked on another list, but never got an answer. Rick Glazier PS: I have no record of the "original" message in my mailboxes? From: "Alan" > Ian, have you tried formatting the unallocated space with Partition > Magic and then merge it with the nearest partition? >> Ian Porter said: >> 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. Do you want to signoff PCBUILD or just change to Digest mode - visit our web site: http://freepctech.com/pcbuild.shtml