{"id":476,"date":"2011-04-14T23:56:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T06:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kb.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb-articles\/how-to-remove-8-mb-of-free-space-at-the-beginning-of-a-hard-drive-2\/"},"modified":"2021-09-07T14:59:05","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T21:59:05","slug":"how-to-remove-8-mb-of-free-space-at-the-beginning-of-a-hard-drive-2","status":"publish","type":"lsvr_kba","link":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/kb-articles\/how-to-remove-8-mb-of-free-space-at-the-beginning-of-a-hard-drive-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Remove ~8-MB of Free Space at the Beginning of a Hard Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article will explain how to effectively remove an ~8-MB block of free space appearing at the beginning of a hard drive.<\/p>\r\n  <p><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">Note:<\/font> <\/strong>If the free space appears within an extended partition, at the front, the condition is normal, and the free space cannot be removed.<\/p>\r\n  <ol>\r\n    <li>In the BootIt&nbsp;BM <strong>Work with Partitions<\/strong>,&nbsp;use <strong>Drive Settings <\/strong>to disable the <strong>Align on End<\/strong> setting for the drive in question, if it is enabled.<br \/><br \/><\/li>\r\n    <li><strong>Slide<\/strong> the first partition up, being sure to specify <strong>0 <\/strong>in the <strong>Free Space Before<\/strong> setting.<br \/><br \/><\/li>\r\n    <li><font color=\"#ff0000\"><strong>Important:<\/strong><\/font>&nbsp; Enable the <strong>Align on End<\/strong> setting for the drive before continuing.<br \/><br \/><\/li>\r\n    <li><strong>Resize<\/strong> the partition from Step 2 to the size shown under <strong>Max Size<\/strong> on the <strong>Resize <\/strong>window.<br \/><br \/>\r\n      <ul type=\"disc\">\r\n        <li>If you do not wish to enlarge this partition, perform the <strong>Resize <\/strong>operation without changing the <strong>New Size<\/strong> setting. <\/li>\r\n      <\/ul><br \/>Performing the resize operation, even without changing the actual size of the partition, causes the end of the partition to be aligned on a cylinder boundary.<br \/><br \/>\r\n    <\/li>\r\n  <\/ol>\r\n  <p>TeraByte Unlimited recommends leaving the <strong>Align on End<\/strong> setting enabled for general use of <strong>BootIt BM<\/strong>, unless the <strong>Align&nbsp;on 1MiB Boundaries<\/strong>&nbsp;option is being used.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article will explain how to effectively remove an ~8-MB block of free space appearing at the beginning of a hard drive. Note: If the free space appears within an extended partition, at the front, the condition is normal, and the free space cannot be removed. In the BootIt&nbsp;BM Work with Partitions,&nbsp;use Drive Settings to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"lsvr_kba_cat":[1826],"lsvr_kba_tag":[2119],"class_list":["post-476","lsvr_kba","type-lsvr_kba","status-publish","hentry","lsvr_kba_cat-bootit-bare-metal-problem-solving-bootit","lsvr_kba_tag-bootit-bare-metal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/lsvr_kba"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6242,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/476\/revisions\/6242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_cat?post=476"},{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_tag?post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}