For an external drive, I would create independent folders on the external and then "include" them into the respective library (just right click on the folder > Include in library). That is the least hassle. Then you can move whatever data you please to these folders. You will still have the original folders on C that you can use or not. That will work whether you partition the external drive or not.
Last edited by whs; 13 Oct 2010 at 13:49.
Contrary to popular belief, formatting does not remove any data at all, it just checks for sector errors and marks the space to be over-written as needed, all the data is still there including all the code from previous/failed installation attempts.
I still get amazed when I see people saying that a format removes data, it does not.
True: Formatting only overwrites the partition table so it has a fresh slate, but data still exists on the HD.
However overwriting zeroes to some is not much different than having 1's and 0's written there. This line of reasoning is that zeroing is only really necessary to cover up data one doesn't want retrieved. In that case it's best to use the DOD standard: 3 sets of zeroes.
I once was reinstalling for a doctor who questioned me closely about whether zeroing would make his data absolutely unretrievable at any time in the future. I told him that I could not guarantee that, that he probably needed to destroy the disk in that case. He took the drive and dumped it in the ocean on a sail to Catalina.
I wonder what he was hiding.He took the drive and dumped it in the ocean on a sail to Catalina.
Taxes was my guess. But NOMB.
don't forget to use the right tools...
Hey guys, I got my external hard drive...now I am trying to partition it so it is like mentioned before, with a seperate drive for music, videos, etc...but I just realized it's completely unnecessary as I can just make folders like whs mentioned, and it would probably be a lot easier to manage them. However, I had begun to follow the tutorial and at one point, got stuck and randomly decided to "mark partition as active". Now that I'm not actually gonna be partitioning it and such, does it matter that I did that? Is there any way to put it back to innactive / do I need to?
edit: oh, and if I were to just drag my game installations from "All Programs" to the external drive, that wouldn't really work properly would it? Like, would it ruin certain files and mess up the games? (my guess is yes, but would be great if I could avoid reinstalling each game onto my external)
Hello again.
You do need to mark that partition as " Inactive " so it doesn't cause issues later; have a look at Option Two #2 in this tutorial at the link below for an out-line of the process.
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