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Partitioning an External Hard Drive: Windows Edition

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Uploaded by on Mar 3, 2010

A screencast tutorial on how to partition an external hard drive on Windows Vista (similar for XP and Windows 7). Produced by Kendra Kavan in Spring 2010 for Engl 549 at Iowa State University.

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  • will my data be still there? or is it deleted?

    pls reply.....need to know whether to do this

  • @rhl2008hotshot You won't lose your data if you create a new partition with the blank space. The only way you'd lose your data is if you re-formatted your drive.

  • Thank you sooooo much, This is amazing. I needed to format my external into 2 parts, one for my main information, and one for movies, and things. But I wanted the movies, and things, to be formatted to fat32, so that it would work on my ps3, because ps3 doesn't recognize ntfs. Hopefully exFAT will work on my ps3

  • @eviltaiyouai Sorry it took forever to answer, but exFAT is just an updated version of Fat32 so it should work on your ps3. I hope it did!

  • Is it possible to unplug the hard drive after the partition, plug it into a mac and reformat the partition to HFS+ for mac?

  • @MacksP0w3r Yes, you'e able to do that! Just format FAT or exFAT first and then reformat that partition on the mac!

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  • Really helpful video, cheers!

  • @citlajaz computer > manage > Disk management > right click which partition you want to delete > Delete volume.

  • can you please make a video on how to remove a partition

  • @kinglooper I have 100gbs for wii and 400gb for files. I downloaded a lot of games and changing games on a 16gb pen-drive was annoying.

  • my only question is why did someone dislike this perfect video

  • @NLM076  thats exactly what i did but i put 25 gigs for wii games out of 500

  • Simple and quick instructions. you have a great instructional voice..

  • Now I can actually mean "Thank you, I love you" without putting [no homo] beside it.

  • @eviltaiyouai If you want the movies to work on your PS3 then you have to partition your external hard drive to less then 31Gb.

    Hope this helped

  • meOw!

    so coool! wish if you were here with me LOLZ

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