Quote Originally Posted by SpywareDr View Post
Yes but, 8MB is a measly 0.0078125 GB . . . less than 1% of your "74.52GB" drive. In other words, your 74.52GB is now 74.51GB.
74.52GB (GigaBytes) = 80,015,240,724 bytes

80,015,240,724 bytes - 8,388,608 bytes (8 MegaBytes) = 80,006,852,116 bytes

80,006,852,116 bytes / 1,073,741,824 (bytes per GB) = 74.51GB
OK doc. It's just that I don't like wastage . AAnyway, since my last post here, I came across a partition software and managed to claimed about 6MB back to my second partition - D: drive without losing any data. It's a bit of a job getting the right amount of MB as the amount you stated you wanted is pretty different from what it actially is. If anyone wants to have a go regarding resizing partitons without cause data loss, etc, have a look at:

http://majorgeeks.com/EASEUS_Partiti...ion_d5967.html

Hope this is helpful to someone

BTW, I still haven't come across any software that Zero the hard drive for future use. dmeilson said that Seagate's SeaTool for diagnostic have this facility. But on checking, it's not there. Not too sure if it is in the Advanced Test part as the help is not too clear. But certain can't find any Z at the top of the page

All in all, I'm quite happy what I've got on my computer so far and what I've learnt. Only still puzzled why the installation is not behaving as it should - ie asked if you sant to format the drive before installing and automatically set the partition size as it used to.

Thanks everyone for your help and contributions. So how do I mark this as resolved ? I can't find any button to do this ? I hope it's just writing "Resolved" on the title as I've done Have a good weekend.