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'Reformatting' Harddrive

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  • aknot
    aknot Posts: 49 Forumite
    sahun wrote: »
    Ahh ok thats obvios now when i look at the harddrive you showed me.


    It saves having to put in a slave drive as a novice may find fitting a slave drive a bit of a issue, so a caddy/enclosure is the easy option and you can back up all important stuff to a new HDD in a caddy, especially in your case you could move all your music photos and film onto the new drive thus freeing up the main PC.

    I would get a bigger drive though as you have already filled up your PC

    Bigger drive http://www.ebuyer.com/product/130454

    Yes with this drive you can just move all the photos and stuff from the My Documents folder and plonk the lot on a drive as shown
  • sahun
    sahun Posts: 303 Forumite
    Well im currently in use of 3 ext. harddrives, but sadly they are all pretty much full now.
    I just wanted to format a partition to fat32 so can use it on xbox or ps3, for playing video files on a tv easily.
    Never knock on death's door, ring the doorbell and run away ..... he hates that :mad:
  • aknot
    aknot Posts: 49 Forumite
    sahun wrote: »
    Well im currently in use of 3 ext. harddrives, but sadly they are all pretty much full now.
    I just wanted to format a partition to fat32 so can use it on xbox or ps3, for playing video files on a tv easily.

    Maybe its time to declutter ;)
  • sahun
    sahun Posts: 303 Forumite
    aknot wrote: »
    Maybe its time to declutter ;)

    Trust me the majority is not 'clutter'. It's mainly DVDs I have backed up, so dont have them lying around everywhere to get scratched.
    Never knock on death's door, ring the doorbell and run away ..... he hates that :mad:
  • aknot
    aknot Posts: 49 Forumite
    sahun wrote: »
    Trust me the majority is not 'clutter'. It's mainly DVDs I have backed up, so dont have them lying around everywhere to get scratched.

    Maybe a terrabyte drive then, why not just get another drive and put the ps stuff on that.
  • sahun
    sahun Posts: 303 Forumite
    aknot wrote: »
    Maybe a terrabyte drive then, why not just get another drive and put the ps stuff on that.

    Looks like that may be the option ill have to do, but im currently a poor student, lol. And have recently bought a 500GB HDD (the one im trying to create the partition on.)
    Never knock on death's door, ring the doorbell and run away ..... he hates that :mad:
  • sahun
    sahun Posts: 303 Forumite
    ok sorted it now, and dont think i lost any files and it doesnt appear corrupted as of yet, yeyy.

    Thank you for everyone's help :)
    Never knock on death's door, ring the doorbell and run away ..... he hates that :mad:
  • aknot
    aknot Posts: 49 Forumite
    sahun wrote: »
    ok sorted it now, and dont think i lost any files and it doesnt appear corrupted as of yet, yeyy.

    Thank you for everyone's help :)


    Just be sure to make a backup of your most important stuff, glad you sorted it mate.

    :beer:
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