Tuesday, January 11, 2011
How to partition a hard drive
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Partition a new hard disk
As digital media more and more popular, computers are our storage space more and more on the hard disk. The price of high-capacity hard drives continuously meet the lower prices, it is now not just computer enthusiasts, the drives are new, their new computers.
While it is relatively easy, especially with SATA hard drives to a new drive - it is not immediately obvious to everyone how to drive only with a new you.that the hard drive is connected properly, it is recognized in the system BIOS, but it is 'missing' My Computer.
That's because it was not formatted. But actually, each disk has a partition plate - even if it is the full size of the physical, the word is' usually refers drive partition to divide a - in more than one logical drive.
Windows has its own tool for the job - as a "Disk Management". In contrast to 'My Computer', iteach hard drive connected to the system - formatted / partitioned or not.
Access it by right clicking on My Computer and select Manage. In the left pane, select "Disk Management" Now, in the right pane, you will see your hard drives and optical drives - hopefully the new drive appears to as "unallocated space".
New disks appear as uninitialized. Microsoft, that when you start Disk Management after adding aDisc is the Initialize Disk Wizard so you can initialize the disk. If for any reason, you can initialize it manually. Simply right-click on the new drives 'label' (the gray box to the right of the black bar that denotes the unallocated space) and select the "Initialize".
When finished, you can begin drive to format. Here are the instructions to create a single partition the full size of the new hard drive. The right of free space on the basic disk youTo format, and then click New Partition. In the New Partition Wizard, click Next, choose "Primary Partition", click Next. Do not create dynamic disks here if you do what you specifically want to know. Once created, the no way back without wiping the drive.
Enter the full size of the disk in the "Partition size in MB" field and then click Next. Assign a drive letter to the drive, click a Next, format the partition to, click"Format this partition with the following settings', type a name for the drive into the" Volume Label "field if you want, and choose" NTFS "in the" File System "field. Not change the" division size 'or the compression in the options.
I would also suggest not performing a "quick format" on a new drive. The full format checks the entire surface of the disk.
Now go and get something to eat / drink, like a large drive, this couldWhile.If take more than one partition on the disk to create, the steps are similar, apart from the size of the partition that you create with it. To create a second partition on the drive, select the remaining free space, and repeat the steps.
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Convert NTFS partition to FAT32 and Vice Versa
1st Comparison of NTFS and FAT32
FAT32 (File Allocation Table) is an old file system, it is simple and easy to read on a large number of operating systems. But recently, it is understandable that the use of FAT 32 partition format always has been replaced by the superior NTFS.
NTFS (New Technology File System) is the standard file system of Windows NT, including its later versions Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, andWindows 7 NTFS replaced the FAT32 file system as the preferred Microsoft Windows operating systems.
By comparison of NTFS and FAT32, it is easy to find that NTFS has more advantages than FAT file system. The below are the benefits of NTFS.
• Enables the indexing improves the user file (usually faster).
• Better security - encryption of files (except Win XP Home)
• Supports user quotas.
• File compression to save space.
• Supportslarger files than FAT (greater than 4GB).
• Supported format on dynamic disks (except Win XP Home).
• Resistant to fragmentation.
2nd How to convert from FAT32 to NTFS
1). Press Open the command prompt, "Windows & R" button, type "cmd" and press "Enter".
2). in the window of the command prompt, type: convert _letter drive: / fs: ntfs
Look here to enter "convert d: / FS: NTFS:" Would-format D: drive with the NTFS formataccording to your own requirements. And if you convert a FAT32 partition to NTFS, you can not simply convert back to FAT32 format because data on the drive or partition, all of which will be deleted. So before the formatting to the data if necessary.
3rd How to convert FAT32 to NTFS
Why do we think back to FAT32 file system? This question confuses many people. The fact is that some devices can only support FAT32 file system to NTFS Convert to FAT32required.
1). Open Windows Explorer and select a drive that you want to reformat it. Right-click on the drive and select "Format" from the context menu.
2). Select "FAT32" from this drop-down box under the "File System" section and check "Quick Format" option.
3). Click the Start button to start the reformatting. It can go take a few minutes depending on the size of your browser. In addition, you can3rd-party software partition (like Partition Assistant Free Edition) to quickly format a partition.