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Just connected a W D 200g 7200rpm 8mg ca. External HDD
It says I have to Partition the drive before I use it, so I'm letting XP do it now, What exactly is it doing? And do I need to get any other Software for it?? TIA |
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Bitstring pLEpa.322128$OV.354583@rwcrnsc54, from the wonderful person
Audioman1 said Just connected a W D 200g 7200rpm 8mg ca. External HDD It says I have to Partition the drive before I use it, so I'm letting XP do it now, What exactly is it doing? And do I need to get any other Software for it?? TIA It (disk management, I assume) is chopping the disk up into one or more logical pieces (partitions, or volumes) which you can then format (as FAT32 or NTFS .. FAT32 being limited to 32GB) and use as 'drives' (F:, G:, H:, whatever). However with a drive this size (over 128GB (binary .. ~ 137Gb decimal)) you need 48bit LBA enabled to use the whole thing .. so if it won't partition/format more than 128Gb, that'll be the problem. -- GSV Three Minds in a Can Outgoing Msgs are Turing Tested,and indistinguishable from human typing. |
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Probably formatting the drive........i just added a USB 2.0 external to my
PC, add that to an 80gig WD internal. Xp should have asked how you wanted it partitioned; i set 1 partition only, meaning the whole drive is one biggy.. No OS on it, i use it for storage only.. As for the question of whether you need any other software for it; What are you using it for? Are you going to install an OS?............. "Audioman1" wrote in message newsLEpa.322128$OV.354583@rwcrnsc54... Just connected a W D 200g 7200rpm 8mg ca. External HDD It says I have to Partition the drive before I use it, so I'm letting XP do it now, What exactly is it doing? And do I need to get any other Software for it?? TIA |
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