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Not the best place to ask

by MarkFlax - 3/18/12 5:41 AM

In Reply to: New PC has a 2TB hard drive, should I partion it if so how by fred777.

as this forum isn't visited that often, other than to reply to Community Newsletter questions.

One of the other forums in the column on the left would be better.

But whilst you are here...

How did you get on with the previous 2TB hard drive, (other than it failing of course). Did you find the need to re-partition it at all or was it suitable for your needs anyway?

I'll be honest, I am in two minds about such large drives as 2TB. My own is 1TB and I am never going to fill it up, but I rue the day when I ever have to run a disk check, or try to defragment it. It is going to take a week for either.

Can you tell us about your computer, make and model and what OS, (Operating System), is installed?

Re-partitioning is possible. I have done it myself on another 1TB drive I had when it had Windows Vista installed and that went well. But an OS like Windows XP is a bit risky. The safest way to partition a drive is to use something like Partition Magic, but even then, we always say, backup what you can't afford to lose.

Mark

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Partioning a 2TB hard Drive

by fred777. - 3/18/12 12:36 PM

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Hello, thanks for your help, the PC I had was a Philips running vista with a 300 and a 200 GB hard drives, when they said they could not fix mine, basically it needed 2 USB port unit replacing, they took it away and a few days later rang to say the parts were not made anymore, so it would be scrapped and I would be issused with a voucher, I rang PC World, and one of their chaps gave me the voucher number, and said I could go to Currys or PC World and pick one out, the voucher value was £319, I went to our local Currys, who said yes £319 but I pointed out that the pc I'd given in was a quad core with 500GB hard drive, and that there was no way I could get one like that for £319 - the chap said - you won't get anything like that for that money, but I am sure the replacement should be like for like, so he made a phone call to someone - lot of talking and I ended up with the cheapest equivelent, an Advent tower with 8gb ram, a 2 TB hard drive, a good graphic card, hdmi, vga etc, wifi dongle. and a wifi keyboard and mouse, it sells for £749.99, running widows 7, I could not believe it until it came into the shopand I had it home, what worries me is if I need to do a defrag or disc cleanup it is going to take forever, that is why I thought of partioning it, but do not have the skill or knowledge to do it - with losing all data, I an OAP, I'll never use that much space!!
Thanks