Unallocated (7.8M) space on 9300 HD

Looking at the HD by Partition Magic, I have an unallocated space with about 7.8 megs. This isn't the Dell Utility or the 3 gig Dell restore hidden partion. This 7.8 megs space is taking up a primary drive. Do I need to keep this? or has anyone blown this away with no issues yet?

The reason I am asking is Norton Ghost needs a free primary partition to back up from partition to partition (for example C to D).

Thanks.

 

There is usually a little unallocated space after the partition is made.

 

hey i'm not sure about this but is that the 8mb cache? i know that all computers that comes from a manufacture has these irregular partitions, usually i just screw their partitions and work with my own.

 

The 8MB left over unallocated are part of the filing system.
I think the MBR (Master Boot Record) resides in this space!

 

You will find that for some reason now known only by historians the partition block uses a whole track. At the time I think they probably thought it didn't account for much. Really now it still isn't much anyway. This ammounts to about 3 floppys sort of. Not much you could do with that these days.

 

Dell put something there, drivers or something, do a reformat and reclaim all of this space if you like, also xp will use up to 8 gigs for restore, you can select a smaller restore partition during installation if you like.

 

i formatted my computer about 2-3 days ago and now my computer is faster than ever. lol stupid dell's junk slowed it down way too much.

through winxp setup, you can delete and create partition if you want. so far i was about to delete any partition with winxp's partition.

 

That 8MB of extra space isn't used. It's leftover because of the way the filing system is designed. Has something to do with cluster sizes I think... Not too sure.

Whenever you create a new partition, you'll never get to use all of the space. This applies to all hard drives, and not just Dell ones.