the issue the o.p. has
brought forward for
assistance seems to
be pretty clear:
Re: Prepare new drive without using Disk Management
the emphasis is on the
itty word that begins with
a "w"
a suggestion to the affect
would be helpful.
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"Anna" <myname@myisp.net> wrote in message
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>>> "M" <spamtrap@spambouncer.org> wrote in message
>>> news:ORZEdgqOIHA.1204@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>>>>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.
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>> "Anna" <myname@myisp.net> wrote in message
>>> 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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> "M" <spamtrap@spambouncer.org> wrote in message
> news:OlOpjX3OIHA.5860@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> To create a partition with unused space is untidy even if the space is small.
>> An external disc can never be dynamic so this seems a messy way to do this.
>> Having been able to do this with an older version of DiskWizard which I no
>> longer have is frustrating.
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>
> M:
> We'll give this one more shot and let it go at that...
>
> I really can't imagine why you find the Disk Management process of
> partitioning & formatting a HDD, regardless of the fact that it's an external
> HDD, "untidy".
>
> Using DM, the process is simple, straightforward, reasonably quick, and
> effective. I see no need for using any third-party utility to accomplish this
> task.
> Anna
>