I got some random 8GB space...

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Hey all decided to reformat and reinstall vista however ran into a issue. I have 2 HD's and when i get to which partition does vista want to install to I have 8GB of unallocated space. Now I have no clue to where this came from because I can't combine it with my other unallocated space on my other HD's. When I highlight it, it also says "this computer's hardware may not support booting to this disk. Ensure that the disk's controller is enabled in the computer's BIOS menu." Now I never had this unallocated space before. It wont let me create a partition out of it.

I have no idea what could cause this to appear. I recently got a new DVD burner. Its a black LG 1 and I also installed a SQL database which im thinking maybe could of made a seperate partition. However it is unallocated space not a partition so i dont think thats the case. I just want to know what the hell it is. I have no usb flash drives/external HD's connected or anything. I am worried it could be a virus that attaches itself to a unallocated partition in secret or something because I can only see this when I try to reinstall windows.
 
Is this a homemade or storebought? If it's storebought, it might be the Vista restore partition companies are loving to shove on their computers.
 
This is my custom built computer. I reformat alot and never ran into this 8.0GB unallocated space before....
 
enginurd said:
Are you sure its not 8MB?
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This.

Often XP / Vista / Win7 (and likely other flavors using NTFS) will leave 8MB of unallocated space on a drive when formatting and creating a new partition themselves. If it bothers you that much use a third party app like Acronis Disk Director Suite or similar to resize the partitions on the disk and 'reclaim' it.
 
silent-circuit said:
This.

Often XP / Vista / Win7 (and likely other flavors using NTFS) will leave 8MB of unallocated space on a drive when formatting and creating a new partition themselves. If it bothers you that much use a third party app like Acronis Disk Director Suite or similar to resize the partitions on the disk and 'reclaim' it.
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+1. Mine does the same thing. Just 8mb of space
 
delete either it, or the other patition... they should merge. :)
 
It might be a recover parition. I havent seen it, but Ive heard of it. With vista buisness there was a security feature that reserved space on the hard drive for backing up critical data...dont know if it helps or not...
 
Use something like Paragon Partition manager or boot into an Ubuntu CD and see if you can access the partition
 
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