Emty new Drive with 6.983.299.072 bytes found - service partition?

Hi @ all,
My system WinXP SP3 still works great .
I had made the Recovery-Medias, so I could restore the system to WIN XP SP2 sometimes.
Now I found a new drive on my system. I knew, that there will be a service partition in this size, so I checked this.
When I push the blue ThinkVantage-Button at Startup, I get an Error-Message.
The only thing I remember that I deleted all the securities on rescue and recovery. I tried to remove elder securities, but this didn't work. When I start to remove the youngest and then the next and so on, it works really fast.
Another thing I tried on this removieng-action was to defragment the drives, but I don't remember, that I told the system to do this with the service-partition.
What can I do now, to get the service partition back without re-installing my super running system?
See you
brownybrumm

Your partitions look fine from an Advanced Format point of view. The test is simple: Are all your partitions' start points, as measured in sectors, divisible by 8? Yours are.
karamaz0v wrote:what confused me a bit, was that I saw a lot of setups with the BIOS boot partition, and also a 200 MB EFI one. Having a BIOS system, I think I don't need the EFI one.
Some people do this because they're unclear of their requirements. Others do it because they want to have the option of switching boot modes between BIOS/legacy and EFI. With both types of boot loader installed, you can choose on a boot-by-boot basis which way to start the computer, assuming it supports both boot modes.

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