Re: [H] Partition - Disk - Drive - Tails

2005-06-10 Thread Thane Sherrington

At 10:51 PM 09/06/2005, Jamie Furtner wrote:

It's for if you ever want to convert the disc from a basic disc to a
dynamic disc. The extra space (1 MB should be needed) is used for the
dynamic MBR called the private region database.


What are the pros and cons of dynamic and basic?

T 



Re: [H] Partition - Disk - Drive - Tails

2005-06-09 Thread Jamie Furtner
It's for if you ever want to convert the disc from a basic disc to a
dynamic disc. The extra space (1 MB should be needed) is used for the
dynamic MBR called the private region database.

Jamie

On Thu, June 9, 2005 4:53 pm, rls said:
 For whatever reason when MS partitions a drive it leaves 8mg to almost 1
 gig unpartitioned spaced at the end of the drive.

 None of my other disk partitioning software creates these little turds.
 Is
 there any functional value or necessity for this wastage?

 Thanks





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