See below.
"Racey" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Sorry You are right on 3 counts, Firstly it should read as 11.72 gb.
>
> Yes, the IBM is the Factory Restore but how can it then appears in my hdd.
> Can I delete this partiton since my system is not IBM?
I don't know the history of your machine or of your hard disk,
so I cannot tell. You can certainly delete it if you do not need it.
> Thirdly, I may have make a second partiton which I forgot to format it.
> Wouldn't this show up in the diagram in Disk Management as I do
> defragementation quite often?
Yes, diskmgmt.msc shows all partitions and all unallocated space.
No, you should not defrag frequently. The benefits are not
measurable but there is a real danger of things going wrong
at some stage. We see the results in this newsgroup once in
a while. Defragging once a month is plenty - even then you
won't notice the difference unless you use a stopwatch.
> Just tried and it will allow me to format it, so in my case now, shall I
> format as Primary partition or Secondary?. Guess I should format it as
> Primary if I were to install Vista in this partion in future ? (after I
> save
> enough vitamin M). Thanks
There are no "secondary" partitions. You can have up to 4 primary
partitions, or 1 extended partition plus up to 3 primary partitions.
The extended partition can have lots of logical drives. The boot
partition must be a primary partition. With the rest it does not matter.
> "Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:
>
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>> "Racey" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:F66232A0-121F-4E35-AF08-(E-Mail Removed)...
>> > If I remember correctly when I did my re-installation, there is no
>> > partion,
>> > hence there may be a default small partiton which I never observe under
>> > Disk
>> > Management.
>> >
>> > The other day I scan another hdd (as secondary slave) and later took it
>> > out
>> > of my pc. Now when I go to Disk Management I can see my NTFS C: and an
>> > additional "IBM Service' FAT32 Healthy (unknown Partiton 758 mb.
>> >
>> > Below these data (Disk 0) , the diagram shows C: NTFS //(11.72 mb)
>> > Unallocated 15 GB // IBM Service
>> > 761 mb (unknown partition). How can the IBM appears in my pc?
>>
>> You cannot install Windows when you have "no partition". You need
>> at least one partition, which could span the whole disk.
>>
>> The IBM partition you see is most likely the recovery partition.
>> Read the manual that came with your machine - I'm sure it makes
>> reference to a "Factory Restore" process.
>>
>> You write that the diagram shows C: NTFS //(11.72 mb). Not
>> very likely. A 11 MByte partition would be nice for DOS but it
>> is grossly inadequate for Windows XP. You probably mean
>> 11.72 GBytes. This will work for Windows XP but is tight. Why
>> not let the installation process delete it so that you can have one
>> large 11.72 + 15 = 26.72 GByte partitio? Alternatively you
>> might create a 16 GByte partition for Windows and for your
>> apps, thus leaving 10 GBytes for a data partition.
>>
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