Re: USB Hard Drive
- From: "Anna" <myname@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 18:16:19 -0500
"heather" <heather@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi, I just bought a 350G usb Lacie drive. It is currently formatted as a
single drive FAT, but I want to format it as NTFS & partition it into
about 5
logical drives. I am running XP home, can I do this through disc
management,
do I have to do it through DOS (if so, does anyone have a link to a good
site
with instructions?) I've done my normal hard drive plenty of times using
my
XP cd, but am not sure how to do the other drive (can I use the XP cd
too?)
I also want to ghost the hard drives of another computer on to this
external
drive; (ghost 2003) - do i have to have partitioned the drive etc before I
can do this? It seems to be asking me to have the entire disc available
for
the ghosting, which seems a bit odd as I'm only talking about 20g or so?
(I'll try norton forums too, for that bit). Thanks!
heather:
As to multi-partitioning your new USB HDD, yes, you can easily do this in
Disk Management and that would be the preferred method.
As to your question re using Ghost 2003...
I'm not sure I correctly understand your objective. You say you want to
"ghost the hard drives of another computer" to your USBEHD. Are you
referring to multiple partitions of a single physical HDD in the other
computer? Or is there more than one physical HDD involved here?
Assuming for a moment that you want to clone the entire contents of a HDD
(perhaps containing multiple partitions) onto one of the partitions that you
will be creating of your USBEHD, you would first need to create partitions
on that external HDD as indicated above. Obviously the size of the
individual partitions would depend upon your specific needs. If, for
example, you were cloning about 20 GB of data from the other computer to
your USBEHD, then you would size the specific partition that will be the
recipient of the cloned contents accordingly, taking into consideration your
future needs of course.
I may be misunderstanding your specific intentions re the disk cloning
process. If so, please clarify for me if I can be of any further help.
Anna
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