How to install samsung F3 1Tb?

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Right when I got my western digital 500Gb green hard drive I could have sworn there were more options like the format button etc.

However got the samsung F3 1Tb today and have inserted it in the case, using SATA II cable, power is connected, it's recognized in the BIOS and disk management but there is no option to assign a drive letter or format it.

The only options that are available when I right click on the disk 3 tab are "convert to dynamic disk" and "convert to GPT disk" (which is only for drives that are 2Tb or larger I think), and the only options available when I click on the unallocated section is "new simple volume", plus the properties and help.

So I presume that I have to choose "new simple volume"? Not really sure exactly.

I would like to format to NTFS, have three partitions, one 80Gb partition, one 150Gb partition and the rest for storage.

Plus how can I transfer my current windows 7 OS 64 bit over to the 80Gb partition? Couldn't be bothered to reinstall everything again :p.

Thanks in advance.

EDIT: I have downloaded the free trial of acronis true image as I have heard that it is the best for doing this.
 
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Yes, "New Simple Volume" is what you want.

However if you're planning on cloning your existing install then it might make things a little bit more complex.

Do you already have a small partition for your OS on the WD drive?
 
rpstewart said:
Yes, "New Simple Volume" is what you want.

However if you're planning on cloning your existing install then it might make things a little bit more complex.

Do you already have a small partition for your OS on the WD drive?
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Thanks for the reply.

Sorry what I meant was my last hard drive I got it was straight forward, which was the 500 Gb WD.

Originally my pc was a lenovo system, so I still have the hard drive that came with it (WD 80Gb), but there is a small partition for the OEM software but obviously I don't need that anymore, apart from that my windows 7 OS and programs are all on the other partition if you know what I mean :p.

Here is a screenshot:
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If you want to partition the drive you'll need to delete the volume you've just created (assuming you made it the full size of the drive). What I'd do is:

1) Delete the volume on the F3
2) Clone the c: partition onto the F3 with Acronis - make sure you tell it to keep the partition size the same
3) Make sure the system is booting off the F3 - remove the 80Gb disk, change the boot priority etc
4) Go back into Disk Management and create another couple of simple volumes in the unallocated space on the F3 with whatever sizes you need.
 
rpstewart said:
If you want to partition the drive you'll need to delete the volume you've just created (assuming you made it the full size of the drive). What I'd do is:

1) Delete the volume on the F3
2) Clone the c: partition onto the F3 with Acronis - make sure you tell it to keep the partition size the same
3) Make sure the system is booting off the F3 - remove the 80Gb disk, change the boot priority etc
4) Go back into Disk Management and create another couple of simple volumes in the unallocated space on the F3 with whatever sizes you need.
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Ok, thanks very much for the help, I have done exactly as you said and it worked great :D. Just in the middle of making the new volumes now for games and storage.

Just wondering what will the performance be like in general windows stuff now, when I have around 5-10 games installed on the games partition and about 300Gb of files on the storage, because on my previous setup it was just the 80Gb drive for the OS and programs, the 500Gb samsung drive for games and some general files, 500Gb for storage. So in some ways will this samsung F3 become bloated and slow down just general things, if you know what I mean :p.
 
You don't need to clone anything, go into backup and restore options in control panel ,choose create system image on the left save an image of your current windows install to one of the spare partitions(you can't save it to to the partition you want to copy it to, but to the 2nd partition on the new drive).

Then remove the current hard drive, boot up to the windows disk, choose repair windows rather than install and use the restore function to install the windows image to the partition you want and all should be good.

Its a surprisingly good feature of windows for moving your install to a new hard drive and will copy everything on the single, or any amount of partitions you want, though I've not done anything except the windows partition myself. Far far easier than messing around with other programs to be honest, because it will deal with the rather ackward 100mb boot partition Windows 7 creates properly which many cloning things don't have right yet(though some do, not tried in a while so the major programs probably have it sorted, still a bit of a pain for ssd's where alignment is crucial).
 
drunkenmaster said:
You don't need to clone anything, go into backup and restore options in control panel ,choose create system image on the left save an image of your current windows install to one of the spare partitions(you can't save it to to the partition you want to copy it to, but to the 2nd partition on the new drive).

Then remove the current hard drive, boot up to the windows disk, choose repair windows rather than install and use the restore function to install the windows image to the partition you want and all should be good.

Its a surprisingly good feature of windows for moving your install to a new hard drive and will copy everything on the single, or any amount of partitions you want, though I've not done anything except the windows partition myself. Far far easier than messing around with other programs to be honest, because it will deal with the rather ackward 100mb boot partition Windows 7 creates properly which many cloning things don't have right yet(though some do, not tried in a while so the major programs probably have it sorted, still a bit of a pain for ssd's where alignment is crucial).
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Ok, thanks for the reply, will keep that in mind for the next time :).
 
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