Unallocated Space

[zom247]

On 2 of my drives I have 7.8MB of unallocated space, one at the end and one at the beginning of the drive. Why has this happened? On my other drive it's all used? Did I partition it wrong?

 

[Steedie]

The buffer on your hard drive

8mb or 16mb usually these days so sounds like yours is 8. So nothing to worry about mate

 

[zom247]

Thanks, thought I was going mad and not partitioning properly!

 

[Deleted member 64478]

It's not buffer, If you upgrade the disk to a dynamic disk it is the space where it saves the information.

Some space at the end of the disk is reserved by Setup in case you later want to upgrade the disk to a dynamic disk. Dynamic disk information is saved at the end of the disk.

 

[Legoman]

The buffer on your hard drive

8mb or 16mb usually these days so sounds like yours is 8. So nothing to worry about mate

The disk buffer is embedded memory on the hard disk controller. It doesn't reside on the disk platters as unallocated space.

 

[jbloggs]

If you upgrade the disk to a dynamic disk it is the space where it saves the information.

This is what the 7.8MBs of space at the end of the HDD is used for.

On the other hand if you have unallocated space at the beginning of the HDD, this can be "merged" into the adjacent "Primary partition", but not into an "Extended Partition."

 

[PhillyDee]

Ive always wondered why that was left.