Parition external drive

[teebird]

Hi All

Does anyone know of an open source product that is free to partition a WD My Passport Essential external drive. It is 500GB and I want to break it up into 2 250GB drives.

Any recommendations on whether it should be Fat32 or NTFS...

Many thanks Tee

 

[Sympology]

Not open source, but free. I've not used on a external drive, but succesfully did a XP drive

http://www.partition-tool.com/personal.htm

Robert Wilensky:
We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.

 

[Nelviticus]

If you're using Windows can't you just use its built-in Disk Management tool (Administrative Tools -> Computer Management -> Storage -> Disk Management)?

As for FAT32 vs NTFS: it depends what you want to use it with. If everything you're going to hook it up to supports NTFS then use that - only use FAT32 if you have to. FAT32 is less efficient and less robust but more widely compatible.

Regards

Nelviticus

 

[goombawaho]

Yeah - What Nelviticus said. No NEED to use a third party tool.

 

[Sympology]

Of course depends if the drive already has data on it...

Robert Wilensky:
We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.

 

[Nelviticus]

Even then you can use the Windows tool, if you're using Windows 7 and if it has less than 250GB of data on it. The version in Win 7 (and possibly Vista) can shrink partitions, allowing you to create another partition in the empty space.

Nelviticus

 

[teebird]

Hi All

Many thanks for your replies. I did not know that Win 7 had that feature. Great I will try to do it now.

Thanks again.

Tee

 

[Nelviticus]

Back up any important data first, just in case!

Nelviticus