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Thanks Jumanji the driver fix worked out just right and I am now cloning the drive for the boss:)
Such a simple thing but to be honest as I said the stuff involving drives is overly convoluted for silly old fellows like me.
Thanks Jumanji the driver fix worked out just right and I am now cloning the drive for the boss:)
Such a simple thing but to be honest as I said the stuff involving drives is overly convoluted for silly old fellows like me.
Glad you got it sorted John. :)
Just out of curiosity, did you try right clicking on the smaller Disk 2 box you have circled in red in your Disk Management screenshot, and click on Initialize?
Here's more information on why your HDD is not be the size as advertised:
HDD's - the Advertized size vs the Actual size.
Hello Shawn well I could do that mate because that option was greyed out or I would have done just that why it was so is a mystery. Anyway jumanji was right on the money with the answer with that uninstall driver option.
I am as I said to him and the others not good at understanding how to get hard drives ready for use and all that partitioning stuff as you can se my pic of the C: drive - I have no idea of how to put that right even though it makes no difference to how the SSD performs.
Thanks for the link mate I know that most drive sizes are not really what they are stated to be but I did think 50GB out was a little bit rude. Mind you I really am not a fan of WD preferring Seagate myself.
Having said that the clone is definitely quicker between programs on the taskbar and booting up.
Personally I like to start an installation with an unallocated drive to help avoid funky partitioning like that, then partition afterwards how I like.
Shawn I shall have to do some researching on the matter as I thought being unallocated was or meant the drive was unusable as is
Unallocated is unusable, but you could select an unallocated drive say during Windows installation to have it automatically formatted and then used to install Windows on like in step 7 or 8 below.
Clean Install Windows 7
Got that Shawn but just out of curiosity is that 100MB space the same sort of aligning method as in Wolfgang's tutorial on SSD's? so to just make it neat and "tidy" so to speak?
I don't remember which tutorial is the one for Wolfgang that you mentioned.
The 100 MB partition is the System Reserved partition created during installation to be able to use WinRE without the need of a system repair disc or installation media.
Hello...
(VERY) infrequent poster, here, but I figured this might be the place to straighten me out about this. I recently bought a 2TB Western Digital MyBook hard drive. to use as an additional data drive for my laptop. Although since it's only 2TB (a bit less than that being usable, of course) I *could* just format it as an MBR drive, but I thought I'd like to format it as GPT, for a couple of not-absolutely-essential reasons.
When looking through this tutorial, I noticed that at the very start of it you've provided a little section contrasting the differences between MBR and GPT formatted drives. The very last thing mentioned is "Removable disks cannot be converted into a GPT disk."
Eeeeek!! Would my external USB-connected hard drive be considered a "removable drive"? I vaguely think I remember reading that "removable drive" as defined by Windows would mean a USB thumb drive, or optical media like a DVD drive, but would NOT apply to an external hard disk such as what I have. Could someone tell me (definitively) whether external USB hard drives can be formatted as GPT?
Thanks so much, in advance...