I just got a 250 gb external drive and it was prefomatted as one big partition. My question is , do i have to reformat the drive to make partitions or should i just get partition magic. I dont want to put anything on it until i have it partitioned.
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Posted 06 December 2004 - 09:37 PM
it is just for storage and backup, but i would like to have three partitions of generally the same size
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Posted 06 December 2004 - 09:38 PM
You shouldnt haft to, but if your going to install an os on that selected partion yah the os will ask to format it.
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Posted 06 December 2004 - 09:40 PM
well alright guess i wont partition it then
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Posted 06 December 2004 - 09:43 PM
Ive always heard creating more that one partition to a hard drive tends to slow things down. If im wrong please correct me
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Posted 06 December 2004 - 10:24 PM
I don't see why it would slow it down.
Yes, just get PartitionMagic and make a new partition. It shouldn't be a big deal.
Yes, just get PartitionMagic and make a new partition. It shouldn't be a big deal.
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