Unallocated spaces at the beginning & end of the BOOT disk

I am spinning off a new thread from 1 in the HARDWARE & DEVICES forum to get some other perspective. The discussion there has seemed to stalled out on what is the issue in my situation. The link to that discussion:
Partition question : Unallocated Space Before

My situation:
I recently shrunk my system partition to create another partition to make a CLEAN INSTALL system on the new partition. I noticed afterward that I have 1Mb UNALLOCATED space both at the beginning & end of that hard drive. Does your explanation above account for this? I cannot seem to get rid of those 2 spaces.

What I am currently doing:
I deleted the drive in question & did a fresh install on the drive. The unallocated spaces persist. Now I am wiping the drive & will do a fresh install again & check the matter again.

Will report back on the progress.

Anyone else stumble on to this problem?

Why the concern over this totally inconsequential amount of disk space? Why is this considered a problem at all?

AddRAM said:

Did you delete the entire drive down to un allocated space before this new install ?

I (THINK) that I did. The new install just finished. Now there is no unallocated space. I will now repartition the drive & restore the old image & recheck.

CHECK MYSELF above: I will restore the old image & recheck. If OK then repartition.

LMiller7 said:

Why the concern over this totally inconsequential amount of disk space? Why is this considered a problem at all?

With VERY GREAT concern. Inexplicable incidents propagate themselves in future operations. From the perspective of system analyst & reliability engineer you BITE THIS IN THE BUD while you can. Later the cascading effect is likely irrepairable.

As a "7 GURU" I would expect you realize that.

SIW2 said:

It is supposed to be like that. Normal partition alignment for Vista and newer.

When you say "It is supposed to be like that.", do you mean the unallocated spaces should exist? They did not before to my recollection.

119baystate said:

AddRAM said:

Did you delete the entire drive down to un allocated space before this new install ?

I (THINK) that I did. The new install just finished. Now there is no unallocated space. I will now repartition the drive & restore the old image & recheck.

CHECK MYSELF above: I will restore the old image & recheck. If OK then repartition.

At this juncture I have restored the OLD image & NO unallocated spaces exist. Now I will repartition the disk to make room for the FRESH INSTALL.

The disk has been repartitoned & NO unallocated spaces. The final step is NEXT, will report back.

Much ado about a megabyte.

gregrocker said:

Much ado about a megabyte.

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is especially true if those of you that offer advice as frequent as you do cannot explain why. I have no idea if this will BITE me in --- down the road.