Terry

I don't think your post about your boot.ini has any bearing to the
original question you raised about used space in your H partition.

I have read the copy of your boot.ini file and to me it looks wrong if I
understand what you are trying to achieve. I take it you want the
default to be to boot to your C drive but to have a 5 second opportunity
to choose to boot to your backup operating system. However, I would have
expected it to look more like a dual boot ini than it does. I am unsure
about the references to the recovery console having never noticed such
appendages in a boot.ini file.

Unfortunately my knowledge on more complicated boot.ini files is limited
and I am watching the other conversation to see what advice works.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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"Terry Pinnell" <terrypinDELETE@THESEdial.pipex.com> wrote in message
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> Ron Martell <ron.martell@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Terry Pinnell <terrypinDELETE@THESEdial.pipex.com> 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.
>>
>>
>>Is this an NTFS partition?
>>
>>Try opening a DOS command window and entering
>>
>>CHKDSK H:
>>
>>Space used for the MFT on an NTFS drive will be reported as "nnnn KB
>>in use by the system".
>>
>>Good luck
>>
>>Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
>
> Thanks Ron. I'll remember that tip for future use. Meanwhile I made
> various changes, including by-passing the problem by enlarging the
> destination partition (tedious!) and generally getting in a fair old
> mess. But I'll post separately under a new subject.
>
> --
> Terry, West Sussex, UK