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 > [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 > The NOSPIN Group is now offering Free PC Tech support at our newest website: http://freepctech.com