Solved Newly formatted secondary harddrive shows 128mb unformatted partition

[iamc3k]

Folks,

I'm running a primary SSD with the W7/64. I installed with ONLY that SSD in the computer. (I've learned.)

Then, after a few reboots and updates, I installed a 1tb WD hard drive. It was a new OEM drive. I did a long format, then a chkdsk.

After a few reboots (and reading some OUTSTANDING tutorials on this site), I moved my USERS folders over to the harddrive. ("D" drive.)

Upon opening Macrium Reflect to perform a backup, I see that my hard drive (D) has a 128MB partition, unformatted, but full. (That does not show up in W7's disk management.)

As expected, my "C" drive, the SSD, has a 100MB System Reserved partition. (As I want.)

What is this 128MB unformatted partition used for? (NTFS file system.) Is this where the file system stores the access table?

Thanks,
Ken

 

[jumanji]

Did you format your 1TB WD drive to GPT? If so it will create a 128MB reserved partition called MSR MicroSoft Reserved. See my post http://www.sevenforums.com/hardware...ting-read-raw-instead-ntfs-5.html#post2576622

For drives less than 2TB, I would still say it would be better to go with the known MBR format rather than GPT if that option exists.

 

[iamc3k]

jumanji,

You are correct. I formatted it as GPT.

I'll look at your post, linked above.

Thank you.

Ken