help needed installing new seagate sata drive

Dinsey · 21 Apr 2007 at 20:24

i have a dell dimension 5150 with already one sata drive and ide.

just purchased a new sata II drive, installed okay, had to put the jumper in to limit the gb bandwith as it didnt install with out it in.

formatted the hard drive but now i need to create a partition as its showing one big 465.76gb drive.

picture below:
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I know i used to be able to do this within windows before but cannot seem to do it as the option doesnt come up when i right click.

Alll help greatly appreciated.

smids · 21 Apr 2007 at 20:44

Right click the big bar under Disk 2 > Delete Partition (ONLY IF YOU DON'T HAVE ANY DATA ON IT) > Then Right click unallocated space (black) and create new partition (primary partition, of any size) > done. Keep doing this until all unallocated space is used up.

Dinsey · 21 Apr 2007 at 20:46

hi there , i dont have any option to delete partition when i right click,

its coloured as simple volume so it doesnt appear to let me. (H)

smids · 21 Apr 2007 at 21:02

Best advice then... download SeaTools from www.seagate.com and erase the drive from DOS. Then start again. Odd. Never used simple partitions before.

rpstewart · 21 Apr 2007 at 21:46

What options do you get when you right click on the H: volume? There should be an option to Delete Volume which is the same as the Delete Partition option that smids is talking about.

IAmATeaf · 22 Apr 2007 at 17:39

The drive has got 1 big partition, if you want to split it then you'll have delete the current and then create the partitions again.