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Program to partition an external hard drive (2 terabytes)

nerawan

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Posted November 7, 2011 at 8:28PM

Hi. I have a large external hard drive and want to make several partitions. Also I have PartMagic 7 and Easus 7.1. Both of them see the external HD but the option to make a new partition is gray. An hour ago I downloaded paragon Partition manager 11 but it's worse. The interface is not very friendly and even doesn't see the external hadr drive. can someone tell me what programs do it?. I use XP. thanks

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northumbria61

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Posted November 7, 2011 at 9:11PM

MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition v.7.0 supports disks over 2 TB is FREE and available for download from here enter link description here It is the best partitioning tool I have ever used - so simple to use although I haven't got a 2TB HDD. This is what it says - Runs as a stand-alone program on a user's computer Pros: Fast performance, easy to use graphic interface, supports RAID drives, supports disks over 2 TB, bootable recovery CD available for download, can repairs Master Boot Records (both MBR and GPT formats). Supports Linux ext2 and ext3 files systems. Data Protection mode allows for more non-reboot required editing scenarios, and the recovery media offers much of the functionality of the full, online program. Cons: Recovery media requires separate download

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northumbria61

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Posted November 7, 2011 at 9:13PM

More about it here enter link description here

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nerawan

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Posted November 7, 2011 at 9:51PM

Hi NorthUmbria. It looks the situation is the same. I just downloaded ,it sees the external partition but the option CREATE (partition) is Gray out. When I red about it b4 downloaded I didn't see anything about external hard drives.

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robinofloxley

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Posted November 7, 2011 at 10:37PM

You can only create a new partition in Unallocated space. Right click to resize or delete an existing partition. Right click Unallocated to create.

Also, you can only have a maximum of 4 partitions per disk.

Or you can have, say, 3 Primaries and 1 Extended Partition. The Extended Partition may contain a number of Logical Partitions.

My main drive on my laptop here, for example, has 3 Primaries and 4 Logicals.

The external drive is 1 Primary and 3 Logical.

It can take a bit of juggling to get the Extended Partition right if you need one (or it did for me).

Get anything wrong and the option gets greyed out.

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robinofloxley

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Posted November 7, 2011 at 10:38PM

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BRYNIT

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Posted November 7, 2011 at 10:41PM

You can only create a partition on an area of the drive that is not being used.

Open Easus select your Primary partition and reduce it's size. You can now create further partitions in the empty space.

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nerawan

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Posted November 7, 2011 at 11:04PM

Hi Robin. Probably you are right. I will try in the next days. i use this drive to copy movies (at the moment I have used 320 gygas). A few of them are blu-ray that take a lot of space. I'm trying to shrink and transfer to 25 gygas Blu-ray and them delete them. after that i will make the partitions. thanks

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wee eddie

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Posted November 7, 2011 at 11:25PM

May I ask:

What is the logic of partitioning an External Drive?

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robinofloxley

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Posted November 7, 2011 at 11:36PM

Chacun a son gout

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sharpamat

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Posted November 8, 2011 at 8:39AM

I have never found any problems useing the inbuilt tools in windows. With your external drive connected,go start,control pannel,system, then strol down to Admin. there you should have the option to select drive management. I find opening this will display all the connected drives with their sizes.From the one relating to your external, you can by formating first then shrinking to the sizes you want. each partition can be formated and set up as you wish

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