First, I want to take a moment to resurrect a hard drive formatting question I posed a few days ago.

I asked about removing those extra partitions from a previous installation. I finally figured out what I was supposed to do. Delete ALL partitions. That simple.

I've been trying to just delete just the extra partitions, but then I realized I should delete the main partition, too. Now it's all one complete hard drive, no partitions. Cool huh?

Now that I did that, I installed Windows XP on the slave drive. I have a 120 GB¹ drive but can only use 112 GB of it. Could I somehow reclaim more of the drive? After all, it's supposed to be a 120 GB drive, right?

It does say that it has 1.58 GB in use and 112 GB available. What is that 1.58 GB and can I reclaim it on my slave drive?

¹ more like 117 GB, I think. It has something to do with defining memory size in base-10 and base-2 formats. I never could understand wrap my mind around that.