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Partition and Format Ext Hard Drives
The question came up. How do I partition an external hard drive? This is a good thing to know especially if your external drive dies and you replace the drive inside the case with a new one. Or if you just want to break that huge new drive into seperate logical drives. This way you’ll have two 500 Gig drives rather than a 1 TerraByte drive. Do this with a NEW drive or at least a drive that is empty and doesn’t contain files you want to save. All data is lost when you partition a drive so if there are files on it copy them somewhere else.
Partitioning USB drives can be done using Microsft Management Console which is built into Windows. To start MMC enter mmc in the Start Search box or with XP the run box. This will open the program. Click on File and then Add/Remove Snap In. Click the Add button and then double click on Disk Management. Click Finish and close the selection boxes. Now you should see the Disk Management program in the Console Window.
Now double click on the Disk management program and you will see the drives connected to your computer. Your drives will show the current partitions and unallocated space. Your new drive will show the entire drive as unallocated so right click and select create partition. You will be able to set the amount of space you want to use. To split the drive into two logical drive you would only allocate half the space. If you want one big drive you select all the space. You can also assign drive letters. You can then use MMC to format your new partitions and make them ready for use.
If you have an old small external hard drive you can put a new higher capacity drive in to that case. Bare drive prices are pretty low. We always find good deals at TigerDirect. Click the banner below and check them out yourself.
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