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    What is this and why is it there.

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by takovr, Sep 1, 2013.

  1. takovr

    takovr Notebook Consultant

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    Was wondering what this space was in front of my Intel ssd drive ? Here is a picture of what it looks like.



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    takovr, Sep 1, 2013
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  2. radji

    radji Farewell, Solenya...

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    radji, Sep 1, 2013
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    takovr Notebook Consultant

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    takovr, Sep 1, 2013
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    tijo Sacred Blame

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    Did you clone your drive and/or repair the boot sector at some point? There is usually a boot partition of 100 MB created when you install Windows on a new drive, if for some reason you moved the boot files to the main partition, it's still there unallocated and when you cloned, it could have carried over.

    @radji, In my experience, Window swill align itself with 1024 KB of unallocated space instead of 100 MB, dunno how alignment tools do it though.
     
    tijo, Sep 3, 2013
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    Yeah, it is not alignment. Windows puts there boot files needed for recovery and other stuff like boot manager etc.

    If smth goes wrong you can always boot from recovey partition and try to repair boot or go to a command line without any CD or USB.
     
    James D, Sep 3, 2013
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    The only thing is that the partition is empty, so something happened to it at some point. I have this on my desktop because for some reason, the boot partition installed on my media HDD (silly me not disconnecting the HDDs when installing Windows), so I deleted it, repaired Windows so that the boot files are on the SSD, but that 100 MB empty partition was still there when I changed my media drive.
     
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  7. radji

    radji Farewell, Solenya...

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    Interesting. I researched what you posted, and that seems to be the consensus. :confused:

    Understand (and Get Rid of) the Mysterious Small Partition

    All this time I thought is was for the alignment of the drive.

    Maybe I misunderstood tilleroftheearth?

     
    radji, Sep 3, 2013
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    He wrote truth but one, you need to add 4 or 6MB to the size of first partition because it takes 2MB for each partition for info otherwise you get off number size like 49.9GB C drive size. :)
    You misunderstood him, alignment will be done but 100MB is nothing to do here.
     
    James D, Sep 3, 2013
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  9. radji

    radji Farewell, Solenya...

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    That's what I've been doing. I've been adding 104MB more to the desired size of the OS partition I am creating and have been getting so the C: drive would be exactly what I want it to be and then the system reserved has it's 100MB and such. I figured I misunderstood him. Sounded silly if me for a drive to need 100MB for an alignment.
     
    radji, Sep 4, 2013
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  10. Karamazovmm

    Karamazovmm Overthinking? Always!

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    tiller is usually right, most people don't bother reading what he is saying though or don't fit what they want to think

    now that the service has started just extend that unallocated partition to 10% of the drive and you've got yourself performance stability
     
    Karamazovmm, Sep 4, 2013
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