How do I get myself an unallocated partition?

[Messerschmitt]

Hey, I just formated everything and created new partitions so I can make an unallocated partition to use the xpress recovery from my gigabyte mobo, and that requires some unallocated space at the end of the disk.

Now, when I made my drive C, and D, and unpartitioned space at the end, installed windows, but now the unallocated space in my computer management - disk management it's just an extended partition of drive D, classified as free space. I don't have the black bar anymore.

What did I do wrong now?

Additional question: What is the difference by formating through the windows CD from MS-DOS (is it MS-DOS? or now it's PC-DOS?) or formating through the actual windows. And if you do through windows, what is the allocation unit size for? does DOS uses an allocation unit size but just uses a default variant, because there is no option, you just do "format d:"

Also what does the extended partition and logical drive mean?

Edited August 15, 2007 by Messerschmitt

[Messerschmitt]

Nevermind, I made it in the end to just find out how crappy xpress recovery from gigabyte is. It dosen't archive, nothing, basicaly it requires the same ammount of space you have on drive C. So if you have a 15GB drive C space you might want to have at least 12-14GB of unallocated space, otherwise if you go above the unallocated space, no more backup for you. So basicaly you just have to waste the same ammount of space you have set for your drive C. Not really worth it imo, even tho I find it it's just conveniable to just insert the mobo disk and restore.

I would still be curious tho about the additional questions I puted in my previous post.

Thanks