Comments for How do I format and partition my new external hard disk?

Comment from Alexov54 on 2008-11-30

2008-12-01T04:12:48Z

Must echo Ajit's comments above. Nice to see this sort of thing explained so well and with such clear english. When I put XP Pro onto a new HDD the other day, it prompted me to create a partition, and I did that, only to now find that most of the hard disk is listed as Unallocated, and I am so far unable to do anything about it. If I try to follow the "wizard" in Disk Manager, it seems to work but then keeps coming up with an error. Must be some way around this....I am sparing you the lengthy details, of course, but hope to use your article to sort out the problem. Thanks again!

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Comment from Basma on 2008-10-24

2008-10-24T15:49:03Z

my hard is new i hink it isn't pre-partitioned so removable disk space didn't apper in the list of the drivers.what's your advice??
thanks in advance.

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Comment from Ajit Shinde on 2008-09-15

2008-09-15T14:05:14Z

Dear Sir,

I have never seen such a good piece of step-by-step instructions. Being a non IT person I found your above article "to the point and precise". Excellent methodology employed here. Paticularly what I liked most was there was no ambiguity whatsoever and where ever possible, the instructions are backed by logical reasoning. Thanks a million. Keep the goo work going.

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Comment from Vinayak on 2008-07-30

2008-07-30T18:49:06Z

Thanks a lot.I have tried the above method but delete partition menu is grayed out.I logged in as administrator.Can you suggest any other solution?
Thanks again for simple yet informative article.

All I can think of is that you likely cannot delete the system partition while it's in use. Thus you may have to boot from another media (much like what it takes to reformat the system drive).

-Leo

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Comment from Gurvin on 2008-07-23

2008-07-23T20:32:59Z

I didn't know about this RSS search. You answer all the "BASIC" questions I have been wanting to get answered all the time.
AMAZING. Many times I simply BROWSE actually FINDING questions and then feel "hey! I always wanted to know that. I cant believe I still don't know that after being computer-literate for 12 years."

Thanks.
Your Fan,
Gurvin.

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Comment from Richard Broberg on 2008-07-22

2008-07-23T01:10:23Z

Try booting with (horrors) the 98SE Emergency Startup Disk and use (gulp) FDISK.

I realize that DOS is beneath contempt, but it has its uses, even now.

NTFS is not all it's cranked up to be. FAT32 works very well and any Microsoft OS can read FAT32, except maybe 3.1.

Slave drives using FAT32 are transportable between or among other Microsoft PCs with, in my experience, no problems.

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Comment from peter on 2008-07-19

2008-07-19T20:04:00Z

Nice lesson leo , thanks for your creativity in articles and explanations.
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