My HDD are looking funky

[beavereater]

Here is a photo of the storage manager.

I'm not sure what I did, but I have 11MB unallocated space on the boot drive (Don't know why or really what that means)
But then I also have a Drive F on my other 1.5 Terabyte drive that shows up. In explorer it shows up in red...not sure why...

Can someone give me a hand...

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[ocgw]

I see nothing out of the ordinary in your ss

If you view your HDD's in Explorer as tiles, if they are red that means they are full

ps 11mb is neglible

ocgw

peace

[stiltman]

Your boot drive is C:, least that's what the pict shows

Are you booting to multiply OSs?
that 11mb might be a boot manager partition

[ocgw]

Your boot drive is C:, least that's what the pict shows

Are you booting to multiply OSs?
that 11mb might be a boot manager partition

exactly, he can delete the volume, and reformat the drive to recover the 11mb, but it isn't worth it

ocgw

peace

[stiltman]

Your boot drive is C:, least that's what the pict shows

Are you booting to multiply OSs?
that 11mb might be a boot manager partition

exactly, he can delete the volume, and reformat the drive to recover the 11mb, but it isn't worth it

ocgw

peace

I would do it just to get rid of it. I hate logical drives and such

[redwudz]

Many boot drives have a second partition, about 10 - 100MB or so, that is created during the OS install. I would just ignore it. It's more common on laptops and used for a recovery partition. On your system, probably something the OS uses.

When I did a clean install of W7 on my Intel PC with a new 150GB Raptor drive, W7 created a 100MB partition and marked it as 'System Reserved'. It only shows up in 'Computer Management.'

If you were to eliminate it, might cause problems somewhere. And it's so small, not worth bothering with.

EDIT: Unallocated means it isn't formatted, so probably not used for anything. If you did format it, you would end up with a basically useless 11MB HDD.

[aedipuss]

if it is a recovery partition like vista and w7 make during certain types of installs and you try to delete it and join it to the rest of the disc, you will just trash the entire drive. that special area is completely non-standard by design.

[stiltman]

My point...not on the boot drive
OEM's usually format the drive and don't give it a letter

[ocgw]

My point...not on the boot drive
OEM's usually format the drive and don't give it a letter

good point, but he did say it is showing as red so I am assuming it is almost full

ocgw

peace