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Matrix01
July 27th, 2011, 02:21 AM
what is unallocated partition for, it exists in Gparted, but does not in Win7 disk management?


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Quackers
July 27th, 2011, 07:57 AM
That's not unallocated, it's a NTFS partition that may need a chkdsk running on it.
plucky
July 27th, 2011, 12:31 PM
what is unallocated partition for, it exists in Gparted, but does not in Win7 disk management?


The un-allocated partition is 1Mbyte in size.

Don't bother about it as you can only move the start of a partition,and that would mean moving all your data in the partition as well,for 1 Mbyte it is just not worth it.

Good Luck
Mark Phelps
July 28th, 2011, 03:11 PM
what is unallocated partition for, it exists in Gparted, but does not in Win7 disk management?

That is a normal side-effect of partition alignment. Sometimes, when partitions get created, they leave some space unallocated -- on both ends.

To change this, you would need to mess with your Win7 OS partition in Win7 Disk Management (NOT using GParted) -- and it's likely that Win7 won't let you resize to use that space.

I would just ignore it.