Re: Prepare new drive without using Disk Management
- From: "Anna" <myname@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 11:51:42 -0500
"M" <spamtrap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have just purchased a new Hitachi hard drive which is mounted in an
external caddy and connected by Firewire. I already have several similar
drives. I need to partition and format the drive. I do not want to use
Disk Management as it has the irritating habit of leaving free space in
case of conversion to dynamic disk. I do not want to use Partition Magic
as experience indicates it has difficulty with larger discs over 300GB,
this disc is 500GB. The last disc I prepared with Seagate DiscWizard
however they have now updated the tool and it now knows that I do not have
a Seagate drive. Can anyone recommend a tool to create a single volume, it
does not even need to format the disc? Windows can do that.
Thanks.
M:
(I POSTED THE FOLLOWING YESTERDAY AS A RESPONSE TO YOUR QUERY, BUT IT
DOESN'T SEEM TO HAVE APPEARED IN THE NEWSGROUP. SO JUST IN CASE YOU HAVEN'T
SEEN IT...)
It's apparent that you're familiar with XP's Disk Management utility and
presumably know how to use that utility.
Obviously you plan to use that Hitachi HDD as a secondary HDD in your
system. That being so, there should be no problem in using DM to create a
single partition on that drive and formatting (NTFS) same - probably about
465 GB (in binary terms). While it is true that the XP OS will set aside
some of that disk space for "overhead" purposes, this amount is trifling, is
it not? I really don't see any significant reason why you would *not* use
the DM utility to create & format the desired partition.
Anna
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