What's with the Unallocated space

[ML]

XP's Disk Management does not show the unallocated space, while 3rd party
partition software shows 10++ MB of unallocated space after the XP's
partition.

Is it ok to reclaim that unallocated space and add it to XP's partition?

Another PC has this unallocated space too.

Tks.

 

[Shenan Stanley]

XP's Disk Management does not show the unallocated space, while 3rd
party partition software shows 10++ MB of unallocated space after
the XP's partition.

Is it ok to reclaim that unallocated space and add it to XP's
partition?

Another PC has this unallocated space too.

10+MB? I thought it was 8MB.

 

[Shenan Stanley]

XP's Disk Management does not show the unallocated space, while 3rd
party partition software shows 10++ MB of unallocated space after
the XP's partition.

Is it ok to reclaim that unallocated space and add it to XP's
partition?

Another PC has this unallocated space too.

10+MB? I thought it was 8MB.

Maybe... 7.8MB?

In any case - not sure what you hope to do with that small bit of space.

How large is the total of your hard disk drive?

 

[ML]

3rd party software shows 13.78MB.
The HD is 30GB, so I want to use every single and "that small bit of space".

Is it ok to reclaim that?

Was that unallocated space used by XP during the setup process?

Thks.

 

[Chuck]

Some space is reserved for things such as track sparing. Depending on what
utilities are used to read the available space, this may be a part of the
difference.
Cylinders, Alignment and some other quibbles may account for the rest.