Re: Prepare new drive without using Disk Management

Anna

Your earlier post did appear but from my point of view two hours after
midnight yesterday i.e. today.

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Anna wrote:
"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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