Upgraded
After almost more than 6 months, I atlast found the time to go buy a new "Wetern Digital 160 GB Hard disk".
I already have a 80GB HDD. I had to now configure this to be the master drive and add the new HDD as a slave. It was fun doing it myself. Before I went to the vendor, i read this nice blog post and got some information on how the jumpers have to be set for different configurations of the HDD. While purchasing the disk, I asked the vendor to explain me about the jumpers. He was kind enough to explain me that Western Digital comes with 5 possible settings and not 4, as is the case with Seagate. That was some knowledge. The various jumper positions were very clearly written on the Hard Disk itself. So it definately made things a bit easier.
Came home and opened up the computer box, and took around 15 minutes to actually fix the hard disk into a proper slot. Then, I had to just connect 2 chords, one for the bus, and the other probably power [ not quite sure ]. Thats it, 20 minutes, and I had the HDD installed in my machine !!!
Now, I had to format this new hard disk. There, started my search for a disk partitioning tool for windows partitions. I primarily wanted to use the second disk as a back up disk and for my video editing sessions, and so it had to have a primary Windows partition with ofcourse enough spare space for all the various Linux versions i am planning to install and fill up the 160 GB space :D
While "googling" i came across this very well articulated cool solution about partitioning on Linux. Ofcourse, it didnt help me a lot, but was very good information none the less. It struck me that i could perhaps create a windows partition from my Linux partition !!! Well, i tried it and then realised that i could not format it :-( Also, it was recommended to always format the partition with the native OS. So, i didnt venture much into this.
I downloaded a trial demo version of Paritition Magic, and after spending an hour on downloading and installing and configuring my hard disk parittiions with it, when i clicked the option that actually would write the new configuration on the hard disk, it gave me a very innocent popup message which read something like ... "This is only a demo version. Please install a paid version to perform this operation." I was like, oh no, it really said "demo" version ... AAArrrgggghhhh X-(
After some more googling, i found this very good article that taught me to use the disk partitioning tool already present on Windows XP to create partitions on my new HDD. I was contemplating on buying a new software for partitioning and thanks to this article, i saved getting fooled.
Now, my machine is more fatter :-) upgraded and ready to go .......
Merry Christmas to you all !!!
I already have a 80GB HDD. I had to now configure this to be the master drive and add the new HDD as a slave. It was fun doing it myself. Before I went to the vendor, i read this nice blog post and got some information on how the jumpers have to be set for different configurations of the HDD. While purchasing the disk, I asked the vendor to explain me about the jumpers. He was kind enough to explain me that Western Digital comes with 5 possible settings and not 4, as is the case with Seagate. That was some knowledge. The various jumper positions were very clearly written on the Hard Disk itself. So it definately made things a bit easier.
Came home and opened up the computer box, and took around 15 minutes to actually fix the hard disk into a proper slot. Then, I had to just connect 2 chords, one for the bus, and the other probably power [ not quite sure ]. Thats it, 20 minutes, and I had the HDD installed in my machine !!!
Now, I had to format this new hard disk. There, started my search for a disk partitioning tool for windows partitions. I primarily wanted to use the second disk as a back up disk and for my video editing sessions, and so it had to have a primary Windows partition with ofcourse enough spare space for all the various Linux versions i am planning to install and fill up the 160 GB space :D
While "googling" i came across this very well articulated cool solution about partitioning on Linux. Ofcourse, it didnt help me a lot, but was very good information none the less. It struck me that i could perhaps create a windows partition from my Linux partition !!! Well, i tried it and then realised that i could not format it :-( Also, it was recommended to always format the partition with the native OS. So, i didnt venture much into this.
I downloaded a trial demo version of Paritition Magic, and after spending an hour on downloading and installing and configuring my hard disk parittiions with it, when i clicked the option that actually would write the new configuration on the hard disk, it gave me a very innocent popup message which read something like ... "This is only a demo version. Please install a paid version to perform this operation." I was like, oh no, it really said "demo" version ... AAArrrgggghhhh X-(
After some more googling, i found this very good article that taught me to use the disk partitioning tool already present on Windows XP to create partitions on my new HDD. I was contemplating on buying a new software for partitioning and thanks to this article, i saved getting fooled.
Now, my machine is more fatter :-) upgraded and ready to go .......
Merry Christmas to you all !!!
u can use the partitioning tools in ubuntu...
ReplyDeleteYou can set the partition layout by using fdisk or cfdisk (either of those are present in any GNU/Linux distro by default) and then used fsck to format the partitions.
ReplyDeleteHowever, those are cli stuff. So an easy to use GUI tool which uses the GNU Parted utility as it's backend is GParted and can handle most about all sorts of partitions.. Have a look at http://gparted.sourceforge.net/
And here are the supported fs types... http://gparted.sourceforge.net/features.php
U can download the Gparted binary if u have Debian, Ubuntu, Mandriva... havent checked any of the other distros, but I guess they are available for others too.
In case u have Mandriva, it basically comes w/ it's own GUI partition tool as well, and supports most of the essential stuff and has a visual display of ur total hdd w/ free/unpartitioned space and everything. It's inside the Mandriva Control Centre.