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| 29 Dec 2012 | #1 |
| | Partition 3tb drive Hi ive just installed a 3TB storage drive gpt and created one partition,would it be safer if there were several partitions for data storage. if so can i now create more partitions on the drive. |
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| 29 Dec 2012 | #2 |
| | Make two 1.5tb partitions so windows recognises them and then format them to ntfs |
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| 29 Dec 2012 | #3 |
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Quote: Originally Posted by baccini  Hi ive just installed a 3TB storage drive gpt and created one partition,would it be safer if there were several partitions for data storage. if so can i now create more partitions on the drive. |
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| 29 Dec 2012 | #4 |
| | To make it safe you would have to get another drive and backup on a daily/ weekly basis to that drive |
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| 29 Dec 2012 | #5 |
| | Thanks for the reply's I think i might just leave it the way it is then,back up any important files to another drive cheers. |
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| 29 Dec 2012 | #6 |
| | Yess but Baccini, windows will only recognsie 2tb of it, you must still partition it to 1.5tb each or similar |
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| 30 Dec 2012 | #7 |
| | no thats not true windows 7 64bit and the drive set up gpt not mbr sees all 3tb well 2.72 i think it should be larger but dont know what size? Last edited by baccini; 30 Dec 2012 at 07:00 AM.. |
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| 01 Jan 2013 | #8 |
| | Sorry. I assumed you needed the format to be ntfs. Sorry for the confusion |
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