[thomson]

Please see attachment pic to check out what iam talking about in this thread........

As you can see, iam running the maxblast utility maxblast for maxtor hard-drives.

I know a bit about partitions and stuff, well enough that ive been formatting and reinstalling windows on loads of systems for years n years, so i know the basics, but thats about it.

If you look at the picture, you will see both my drives listed there, drive c and e.
On drive C there is 4 parts which you can see, the big part is the main partition that windows is on and the other small yellow part is the backup partition should I not have a backup disk it excists there anyway, but the other 2 parts , the green unallocated parts, those are the things i cant figure out, what/why are they there ??? they dont show in windows, only the 2 yellow parts show in windows, same with drive E too, wtf's that all about ??? lol, thats my question.

If my memory serves me right, I think i can always remember having 1 tiny part of a drive unalocated, but i can "never" remember 2 parts, and on both drives too, even stranger.

Anyone know the low down on that please ???