- Does an external USB hard disc need at least one primary partition ?
- Posted by Jason Stacy on February 17th, 2008
I bought a new external hard disc which I plan to connect through USB in order to backup
some of my files/directories.
Before using I must create some partitions. Now I am wondering wether I need at least a dummy
primary partition on this hard disc.
Is this required or can I just put ONLY extended/logical partitions on this hard disc?
J.
- Posted by Dragomir Kollaric on February 17th, 2008
On 2008-02-17, Jason Stacy hit the keyboard and wrote:
Why not try it? What can go wrong? I'd stick it into a slot
and then in "Workspace" you'll find the icon for it. You
didn't tell which OS your using though. I assume some
variant of Windows? In any case it will tell you that the
drive isn't formatted, and when you just create one extended
partition it will tell you if this can be done or not. I
think it will demand that you use a *primary* first, and
then you can create up to 4 of them anyway.
Dragomir Kollaric
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- Posted by Mike Cawood, HND BIT on February 17th, 2008
"Jason Stacy" <jjstacy@yahoo.net> wrote in message
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If it's formatted in FAT32 I would recommend reformatting with NTFS.
Mike.
- Posted by Eric Gisin on February 17th, 2008
There is no need for extended partitions today, stay with primaries.
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- Posted by Frankly Scarlett on February 19th, 2008
Consideration
I have a 4GB Sandisk flash drive. As it came out of the box, it wanted to be
set up using two adjacent letters. Unfortuneatley, my system set-up at work
doesn't allow for ANY free letters until K: (I have 2 HDs, 1 is partitioned
and a CD. Also the network maps a bunch of things.) While I have K/L/M free,
it wouldn't map there.
Resolution - I formatted the drive to 1 drive and used device manager to
specify it was drive M:.
If you are trying to add more letters to your mapping, make sure you have
room in the "alphabet".
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- Posted by Jeff on February 19th, 2008
What happens when A through Z are used up and one wishes to add more drives
after that?
jeff
- Posted by Rod Speed on February 19th, 2008
Jeff <Jeff@somewhere.com> wrote:
You're fucked until you work out how to combine some and save letters.
- Posted by Gotde T Shirt on February 20th, 2008
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:08:21 -0500, Jeff wrote:
Assuming you are running Windows 2000 or later and have at least one NTFS
formatted volume, you can create NTFS mounted disk drives. A mounted drive
is a drive that is mapped to an empty folder on a volume that uses the NTFS
file system - and doesn't need a drive letter. That way you can add as many
drives as you like.
See here for details: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307889
