Re: SP2 and drive letters
From: Alex Nichol (alexn.mvpdts_at_ntlworld.delete.com)
Date: 11/17/04
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Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 16:50:21 +0000
David wrote:
>Having just updated to SP2 I find that I have a new "drive" which at
>this time has only one restore point, and is only 8Mb in size.
>However, I will not use system restore, in my experience it doesn't
>restore everything so it is no substitute for a drive image. Trouble
>is this pesky drive has taken "D" which I have always used for program
>files.
The 8 MB of spare space is normally the slack of the very first cylinder
of the drive, left after the initial Master Boot Record in the very
first sector, and before the first partition which is aligned on a
sector boundary. Go to Control Panel - Admin Tools - Computer
Management, select Disk Management and look lower right for the graphic
of the drive to check
Provided you do not use 'Dynamic disk' which makes use of this space,
though I do not think it should show there as a partition, or a Boot
Manager (eg Bootit NG will make its own 8 MB micro-partition there) it
would be a partition that could be deleted. But if you do use such a
Boot Manager you should take steps in *its* set up to ensure that the
partition in question is 'Hidden'
-- Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies) Bournemouth, U.K. Alexn@mvps.D8E8L.org (remove the D8 bit)
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