Weird 2mb partition, trying to remove

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by Tacoboy, Aug 12, 2010.

  1. Tacoboy

    Tacoboy Private E-2

    I'm trying to use a Samsung HD753LJ as a boot drive in a Win XP computer.
    I'm using my Win 7 computer to format and partition the drive.
    There is a small 2mb partition on the Samsung that I can not delete or format, it shows up in disk management after I've partitioned the drive, it shows up as the last partition.
    Originally I had setup this drive a few years ago using XXcopy.
    Any idea what this partition is or what can I use to remove it?
     
    Tacoboy, Aug 12, 2010
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  2. Tacoboy

    Tacoboy Private E-2

    Just realized I had original formatted the drive with larger 4000k clusters :major
     
    Tacoboy, Aug 12, 2010
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  3. Tacoboy

    Tacoboy Private E-2

    Tried using 512k clusters, still get 2mb leftover.
    I'll live with it.
     
    Tacoboy, Aug 13, 2010
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  4. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    Hi

    Yes the extra partition if you have used Windows 7 to format/partition the drive is the System Reserved partition for Bitlocker and Windows Recovery, normally its 100mb+so you have been lucky.
     
    DavidGP, Aug 13, 2010
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