Guest Watty Posted October 6, 2008 Posted October 6, 2008 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 Posted October 7, 2008 Posted October 7, 2008 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. >
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