i have a new external hard drive which i need to partition, when i go via disk management, select the drive and right cliick i don't get the option to partition ( the manual with the drive tells me this will happen) is this because i use windows xp and the external drive is fat32. one option is to format the drive is this what i need to do first? please keep any answers simple i am computer dum dum - thanks happy new year
2006-12-30 04:11:38 · 2 answers · asked by edenburb 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
Hey Dude,
It sounds like the drive is already partitioned. You would have to delete the partition to be able to repartition it.
So yes, if there is nothing on it and you can only format it, do it.
Fat 32 or NTFS doesn't matter, unless you are going to connect it to a windows 98 machine, or some other OS like Linux. Leave it Fat 32.
Simple answer, format it. Windows XP understands fat32.
Tom
2006-12-30 04:17:22 · answer #1 · answered by Cafetom 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
On Windows Explorer locate your Hard drive, then give a right click on the hard drive and click the option Format ... there you can choice to format it into the FAT or NTSC. If you can't use Partition Magic of Power Quest. It's a program that gives partitions to hard Drive and it's simple to use.
2006-12-30 12:16:40 · answer #2 · answered by mafairnet 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋