Ian, have you tried formatting the unallocated space with Partition Magic and then merge it with the nearest partition? Alan Priol 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 [log in to unmask] Do you want to signoff PCBUILD or just change to Digest mode - visit our web site: http://freepctech.com/pcbuild.shtml