Greetings ceri,
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You haven't given an details of the make of computer or hard drive.
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I had no idea that this mattered but my PC is ThinkPad X60s and the hard drive is 80GB (5,400rpm/Serial ATA/9.5mm/2.5'). Sorry if my first post was not sufficient.
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I suspect however that the "extra" partition" is a recovery partition, normally hidden, installed by your computer manufacturer on build.
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I was speaking of a "data strip" that I saw was marked in deep blue (consecutive data) after I ran Diskeeper Lite. The application said that it defrag-ed the "C Drive (IBM_PRELOAD)." Judging from this indication and the size of the data strip (.5 GB), and from the size of the defrag-ed region (71.081 GB), it cannot be the recovery partition (IBM_SERVICE ca. 5GB in size). Whether this orphan data strip is a _part_ of the recovery mechanism, I don't know.
In any event, I'd appreciate advice how I can safely repartition my hard drive. If this reply is still lacking important data, I should be glad to add.
regards,
ik