Author Topic: Western Digital 80GB arrives (Read 235 times)

Octavius · « **on:** September 11, 2002, 10:26:52 PM »

...and all is right in the world. First attempt at changing a hard drive and setting the old/new to a master/slave setup is successfull. I bought a Western Digital Caviar 80GB 7200rpm 8MB buffer ATA/100.

One problem with partitioning... after installing, I booted off the Win XP CD and formatted using the utility on the disk. I was not given the option of using FAT32 partition style. I don't know much about partitioning and the logistics... but the only option I was given was an NTFS file system with one huge chunky partition of the whole 80gb. I'd certainly like to chop it up, but how do i go about doing that without reformating and starting all over? Are there any programs other than Partition Magic ($60) that will partition the drive after the installation of an OS?

Thanks in advance,

oct

Animal · « **Reply #1 on:** September 12, 2002, 12:17:50 AM »

You will love it. I have the 100GB version and its very fast.
As for Fat32, if you want that, you will have to partition with FDISK

bloom25 · « **Reply #2 on:** September 12, 2002, 06:38:57 PM »

If you are using winXP or win2k just have it as a large NTFS partition. FAT32 has a 4 GB file size limitation and is less efficient and a bit slower than NTFS. NTFS also has other benefits that I don't have time to get into.

The only downside is that DOS programs cannot see NTFS partitions, that means things like Norton Ghost won't work.

Octavius · « **Reply #3 on:** September 12, 2002, 06:45:04 PM »

So its ok to have one large NTFS chunk? If the positives outweigh the negatives then I'll leave it as is.