appears to have an additional partition

[Guest]

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?

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

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.

 

[Guest]

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?

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?

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

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

See below.

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.

 

[blkwlnt67]

A simple question - if your pc is NOT an IBM, just what is it ? Every
manufacterer has a different way of doing the original setup.

 

[Guest]

My pc is a DIY with a retail xp. Still dont know how can the IBM factory
restore endedd in my hdd? This leads me to ask then if I have 3 primary
partitions in my boot hdd (1st hdd) and should in future if I installed a
secondary slave hdd for scanning purposes, would the same thing happen again,
meaning will some of the prog somehow landed into my hdd (1st). (note; 2nd
hdd will have its own OS and primary partition) Thanks