I made a new partition H on my third HD, large enough to contain a
copy of my XP OS from C. But when I came to use Drive Image to make
the copy, it said destination was too small. On inspection, I found
that although it was apparently EMPTY, it had a 'Used' figure of 122MB
- just enough to take it fractionally below the size of C.

Why would a brand new partition have *any* used space? The only
content I can see is a RECYCLER folder, but that's '35 bytes', and I
can't seem to remove it anyway.

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Terry, West Sussex, UK