Unalocated Disk Space

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Curious said:
I interpreted the OP's post to mean that the had a 160GB HDD with 10GB
unallocated and not a 160MB HDD with 10MB unallocated
Also I have always been under the impression that the space for reserved
restore points did not show up as allocated on a HDD partition.
Also I have never heard of "Aligning Partitions" before nor could I find
any information about it using Bing
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He's says 10MB. That is a typical amount "left over" after formatting most
drives and is due to the way formatting works. Many users wonder about it
and I have seen the question many times. I think he really meant MBs.
 
JamesJ said:
I haven't heard of it either.
A partition manager is reporting my drive's capacity as 149GB with 9MB
unallocated.
I'm trying to find a way to allocate ALL the drive space.

James
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You can't. It is normal and is right in line with my experience with
formatted drives. The manufacturer always provides "extra" sectors to allow
for bad sectors detected later by the disk manager in your OS as well as
partition alignment as commented on by Rick Rogers above. It is roughly
analogous to the margins used by a printer. The disk manager can "borrow"
sectors from the unallocated area if it has to mark any allocated sectors as
"bad."
 
Ok.

Thanks,
James

Colin Barnhorst said:
You can't. It is normal and is right in line with my experience with
formatted drives. The manufacturer always provides "extra" sectors to
allow for bad sectors detected later by the disk manager in your OS as
well as partition alignment as commented on by Rick Rogers above. It is
roughly analogous to the margins used by a printer. The disk manager can
"borrow" sectors from the unallocated area if it has to mark any allocated
sectors as "bad."
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