quick question about formating new hard drive

EDDS · 11 Oct 2006 at 22:14

i've got a raptor with windows installed on it, and i've got a segate that i want to format so i can use it, when im in the new partion wizard, which option do i choose out of primary and extended? as its confusing me abit as im a noob lol

marc2003 · 11 Oct 2006 at 22:19

primary.

you would only need to use extended if you wanted more than 4 partitions on the same disk.

EDDS · 11 Oct 2006 at 22:20

ah cheers, thanks for the quick reply

bledd · 11 Oct 2006 at 22:23

ditch the wizard..

start, run

diskmgmt.msc

in there if you want a blank seagate, select it, and choose format, ntfs (might need to delete partitions currently on the seagate drive)

EDDS · 11 Oct 2006 at 22:37

ah to late, thx anyways