Scenario:
2 x IBM ATA-100 drives on an A-Bit Hotrod PCI Controller.
Drive 1 (Master) = 60Gb, FDISK'd and Split 50/50 Primary/Extended Partition (C,D drives) FAT32
This drive boots WinME!
Drive 2 (Slave) = 46Gb, FDISK'd and Split 50/50 in ONE Extended Partition (E,F drives) FAT32
Question:
Why does Partion Magic show 7.8mb of unallocated space on Drive 2 preceeding the first partition? FDISK seems to lose this ammount when creating just an EXTENDED partition without telling anyone! If I create a PRIMARY partition, like Drive 1, I don't get this problem!!
I also noticed the total AVAILABLE space on the drive is LESS (by about 8mb) when creating an EXTENDED partition with FDISK!
Is this normal? Why is there unallocated space, can't I use the full drive capacity with extended partitions?
2 x IBM ATA-100 drives on an A-Bit Hotrod PCI Controller.
Drive 1 (Master) = 60Gb, FDISK'd and Split 50/50 Primary/Extended Partition (C,D drives) FAT32
This drive boots WinME!
Drive 2 (Slave) = 46Gb, FDISK'd and Split 50/50 in ONE Extended Partition (E,F drives) FAT32
Question:
Why does Partion Magic show 7.8mb of unallocated space on Drive 2 preceeding the first partition? FDISK seems to lose this ammount when creating just an EXTENDED partition without telling anyone! If I create a PRIMARY partition, like Drive 1, I don't get this problem!!
I also noticed the total AVAILABLE space on the drive is LESS (by about 8mb) when creating an EXTENDED partition with FDISK!
Is this normal? Why is there unallocated space, can't I use the full drive capacity with extended partitions?