Re: Partition external hard drive

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From: Crusty \(-: Old B_at_stard :-\) (B_at_stard)
Date: 05/22/04 

Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 21:14:58 -0400

Yes you can. You have to delete the existing partition first. Then you can
work with the unpartitioned space. For video editing you definitely want the
NTFS file system on the partition where you will be keeping/working with
your video files. The fat32 file system limits you to a 4 gig file size.
Many video files are much greater than this. Hell, a 30 minute home video of
my Grandson is 7.6 gig, before editing.

With NTFS you can have one file up to the limit of the size of the disk
(wouldn't recommend it though) (-:

Since you are going to clean off the hard drive, there is really no reason
to get Partition Magic, although it is a great program to work with
partitions after they are formatted. 

-- 
Regards:
Richard Urban
aka  Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)
"Jo" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:FE40E5EE-A192-4A15-9B91-6FED267A1FC2@microsoft.com...
>I just got a new Maxtor 250GB external hard drive for my video editing 
>work.  It was formatted for FAT32 and I wanted to change it to NTFS.  I 
>also wanted to make a small partition on the drive to install a couple of 
>my editing programs.
> Instead of using Maxtor's software, I used XP's disk management utility. 
> The instructions said to right click in an unallocated space to do the 
> partitioning, but I could never get the "Partition" option to come up... 
> only option about partitioning was "Delete Partition".  I saw no 
> Partitioning Wizard.  So I went ahead and formatted in NTFS and thought I 
> could partition it afterwards.  But now I've found that partitioning has 
> to come first.
> My question:  If I do the "Delete Partition", can I go back then and 
> partition it into two parts and then reformat?  There is nothing on the 
> drive, so all I would lose would be time at this point.  Thanks for any 
> help.

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