"Shenan Stanley" <newshelper@gmail.com> wrote:

>Terry Pinnell wrote:
>> 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.
>
>Sounds like you did not delete all partitions.
>Since this is a new drive I am assuming - initialize and partition it again.

I don't follow. My query is about the (to me) mysterious contents of a
partition. It's one of two on that HD. The other is the single logical
partition made a week ago when I installed the drive.

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Terry, West Sussex, UK