Moving Ahead -- Partitions and Laying Down the Old Install

[Guest Watty]

OK, the reformat problem was solved. See my post in the other chain on

this--Very Slow.

 

Unfortunately, I did not partition the drive. I had hoped I could do

that after the reformat--too far along in the format check to back out.

Is it possible to do this now?

 

Here's where I'm headed. I'm going to lay down a 80G installation on

this new large 320G drive of the installation as it was before the 80G

drive holding it died. I recovered all files on the 80G. I'm going to

use unstoppable copier to do that. I would think I would put that in

partition 1 if I make 3 partitions here. BTW, I'm now up to 7% while

waiting for WD to answer their 30 day free installation help.

 

The plan here is to do the above, so I can see if I can restore my "old"

installation to this new HD.

[Guest sgopus]

RE: Moving Ahead -- Partitions and Laying Down the Old Install

 

You should choose a partition size before you format, as you have to have

some kind of partition to install the operating system on, I suggest nothing

smaller than 40 Gig that would give you some growing room, just strictly for

the operating system, data goes on a different partition, just keep in mind,

that hard drive dies you lose all partitions on that drive.

 

"Watty" wrote:

> OK, the reformat problem was solved. See my post in the other chain on

> this--Very Slow.

>

> Unfortunately, I did not partition the drive. I had hoped I could do

> that after the reformat--too far along in the format check to back out.

> Is it possible to do this now?

>

> Here's where I'm headed. I'm going to lay down a 80G installation on

> this new large 320G drive of the installation as it was before the 80G

> drive holding it died. I recovered all files on the 80G. I'm going to

> use unstoppable copier to do that. I would think I would put that in

> partition 1 if I make 3 partitions here. BTW, I'm now up to 7% while

> waiting for WD to answer their 30 day free installation help.

>

> The plan here is to do the above, so I can see if I can restore my "old"

> installation to this new HD.

>