why the pc leaves 8mb when partitioning the hard disk?
2006-08-17 02:17:43 · 7 answers · asked by marsel 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
it's normal
2006-08-17 02:35:48 · answer #1 · answered by danielpsw 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Any present day operating gadget which includes abode windows XP, Vista, and maximum Linux installs comprise a bootable CD which will partition and set up your disks properly in the course of the OS deploy. You no longer desire a separate boot disk with a partition application to target this. in case you opt to format and partition a disk by technique of connecting it to an latest abode windows device, bypass ahead and deploy it and use the Disk administration device to partition and format. you'll nevertheless ought to position in the OS, so that you may want to besides merely try this once you position in on the vacation spot pc. briefly: merely construct your computing device, boot with the OS deploy disk, and it would want to help you partition and format from the deploy.
2016-11-25 22:17:59 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How do you know it is leaving 8mb?
Could it be the 1000 vs 1024 thing where you get a 60g drive and think 60 * 1,073,741,824
but it's actually 60 * 1,000,000,000
Another possibility is that the missing 8mb is reserevd for system stuff, partition info, boot sectors and so on.
Or you are using an older computer and a drive just a bit too large for it to read entirely.
2006-08-17 02:28:55 · answer #3 · answered by sheeple_rancher 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You are both right and wrong. It's the header information of the rest of the partition, otherwise known as the File Allocation Table.. OF course there are newer and differeing standards. Windows makes that 8 meg space, linux uses 50 megs for boot on a large drive, Mac does the same thing.
It's the space the OS, windows in this case, uses to store the location of files on the disk.
2006-08-17 02:29:34 · answer #4 · answered by SpankyTClown 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, it is NOT the cache.
That 8MB exists so that you can easily convert the drive from Basic to Dynamic mode.
It's unpartitioned space which means that there is NO DATA in that space.
2006-08-17 02:25:37 · answer #5 · answered by IT Pro 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
can you buy half apple in a market!
this is the same
can not merge to the rest of your partitions and you can redivide your partitions to remove it away
2006-08-17 02:27:15 · answer #6 · answered by gandalf 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That would most likely be the cache,space allotted to put & retrieve data in transit. :-)=
2006-08-17 02:24:25 · answer #7 · answered by Jcontrols 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋