Posted February 16, 20195 yr After the job is nearly done, do you format or create a new simple volume.
February 17, 20195 yr FPCH Staff Can you be more specific? What job? "Confucius could give answer to that... unfortunately Confucius not here at moment."
February 17, 20195 yr Author As the title implies, "Converting an internal hard drive to an external hard drive!"
February 17, 20195 yr You don't convert. Do you want to clone, image or backup the internal hard drive? What are you planning to do with the external hard drive? Keep it for an emergency, swap the internal for the external or something else?
February 17, 20195 yr Author I have an internal HDD and I want to put it inside an enclosure so I will have an external HDD where I can back up information.. This will give me a portable hard drive .
February 17, 20195 yr You create a new simple volume using the whole drive or partition it whatever way you want.Then you format it to the correct file system you want.For windows you usually want to format it NTFS.I hope that helps clear it up for you.
February 17, 20195 yr FPCH Staff Why the nit picking? With out the proper information we can not properly advise you. I could of told you to GPT that drive and it would of never worked on some systems. Could of told you to put an EXT4 format on the HDD and it may not have worked for your needs. "Confucius could give answer to that... unfortunately Confucius not here at moment."
January 5Jan 5 On 2/17/2019 at 4:43 PM, IJAC said:You create a new simple volume using the whole drive or partition it whatever way you want.Then you format it to the correct file system you want.For windows you usually want to format it NTFS.I hope that helps clear it up for you.This has been how I've done it, and it has always worked very well in my favour. It is all about following the necessary steps that you should follow.
