New hard drive installed and now stuck (help)

demon · 23-01-2007, 08:33 PM

I just got my new seagate baracuda 7200.10 series 320GB hard drive installed and having got everything set up and the drive initialised I've gotten myself stuck and pondering at least another question.
At this point (and with the help files not helping that much) it states that I'm supposed to create a partition on the new disc but this kind of goes into the question I'm pondering as well that I'm only seeing the drive as a 298.09GB drive but as my 160GB external hard drive is being seen as a 153.38Gb hard drive I would think this is normal (or I should just use the seagate discwizard to do the job)

happosai · 23-01-2007, 08:48 PM

The units used when advertising the capacity of hard drives is different to that used by computers (the difference between 1000 and 1024 for units such as kilo, mega, giga, etc.), so the 'real' capacity appears less than that advertised. Also, a file system has overheads, so the free space of an empty but formatted drive won't be the entire capacity of the drive.

You don't need to create partitions on the drive unless you want to split it into multiple sections. If you're just going to use it as a single large 'drive' in Windows, you'll just need to format it: right-click on the relevant drive and select 'Format...'. Stick with NTFS and default allocation unit size, unless you have reasons not to (don't select quick format or compression either). Make sure you're formatting the correct drive/partition, BTW...you don't want to accidentally erase stuff on your other drive(s).

[Happosai]

demon · 23-01-2007, 08:53 PM

It doesn't give me an option to format the only option it gives me is the one to create a new partition with options given in the wizard to create a primary partition or an extended partition and as my other 2 drives are set as primary partitions I'd have to do the same for this (or as I said before would the seagate disc wizard be of more help)

Edit: I sorted it out all I had to do is create a primary partition using all the available space on the drive and the options for formatting was at the end of the wizard and I've got the drive formatting as I type (wish me luck as it is only at 6% when I typed this part)

happosai · 24-01-2007, 09:26 AM

D'oh...of course you need to create a primary partition...wasn't thinking straight! My excuse is that I rarely set up single partition drives...

[Happosai]

23-01-2007, 08:33 PM	#1
demon Registered Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: hayes middx Posts: 1,107	New hard drive installed and now stuck (help) I just got my new seagate baracuda 7200.10 series 320GB hard drive installed and having got everything set up and the drive initialised I've gotten myself stuck and pondering at least another question. At this point (and with the help files not helping that much) it states that I'm supposed to create a partition on the new disc but this kind of goes into the question I'm pondering as well that I'm only seeing the drive as a 298.09GB drive but as my 160GB external hard drive is being seen as a 153.38Gb hard drive I would think this is normal (or I should just use the seagate discwizard to do the job) __________________ Wahahahahaha!

23-01-2007, 08:48 PM	#2
happosai =(^;^)= Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Stockport, Manchester Posts: 2,586	The units used when advertising the capacity of hard drives is different to that used by computers (the difference between 1000 and 1024 for units such as kilo, mega, giga, etc.), so the 'real' capacity appears less than that advertised. Also, a file system has overheads, so the free space of an empty but formatted drive won't be the entire capacity of the drive. You don't need to create partitions on the drive unless you want to split it into multiple sections. If you're just going to use it as a single large 'drive' in Windows, you'll just need to format it: right-click on the relevant drive and select 'Format...'. Stick with NTFS and default allocation unit size, unless you have reasons not to (don't select quick format or compression either). Make sure you're formatting the correct drive/partition, BTW...you don't want to accidentally erase stuff on your other drive(s). [Happosai] __________________ . /V\ . o O You're an anime fan? =(@;@)= . . You live in the North-West of England? ~(,,) . . . You're a member of NanimeW?

23-01-2007, 08:53 PM	#3
demon Registered Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: hayes middx Posts: 1,107	It doesn't give me an option to format the only option it gives me is the one to create a new partition with options given in the wizard to create a primary partition or an extended partition and as my other 2 drives are set as primary partitions I'd have to do the same for this (or as I said before would the seagate disc wizard be of more help) Edit: I sorted it out all I had to do is create a primary partition using all the available space on the drive and the options for formatting was at the end of the wizard and I've got the drive formatting as I type (wish me luck as it is only at 6% when I typed this part) __________________ Wahahahahaha! Last edited by demon; 23-01-2007 at 09:18 PM.

24-01-2007, 09:26 AM	#4
happosai =(^;^)= Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Stockport, Manchester Posts: 2,586	D'oh...of course you need to create a primary partition...wasn't thinking straight! My excuse is that I rarely set up single partition drives... [Happosai] __________________ . /V\ . o O You're an anime fan? =(@;@)= . . You live in the North-West of England? ~(,,) . . . You're a member of NanimeW?

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