how to install a hd?

[suicide007]

I just pruchased a seagate barracude sata3.0 hd, and was wondering what was the best program to use to partition it? I know theres stuff like datalifeguard, but i thinks thats for western digital, isnt it? Anyways, i was jsut curious, cause my last drive went bad.

Also, is there anything special i should do to it? Thanks.

 

[eleclipper]

partition magic

 

[PP Mguire]

Partition magic or G-partition.

 

[CrazeD]

Partition it with XP when you first install it.

 

[cwiz]

i just use my windows disk too

make sure if its your only hd that u set the jumper (little black plastic thinger on the back that connects 2 metal prongs) correctly! it should be set to CS (cable select) or Master

 

[suicide007]

cwiz, its an sata drive, and sata are on their own channel. So the only jumpers are to set it from sata150 to sata3.0.


its my third hd in the system. I have a 60gb ide hd running linux, a 300gb sata hd that had windows xp but went bad and im now trying to salvage data off of it, and i have the 320gb sata hd im using now.

I was just being cautious because my last one went bad. And i went the easy/long way and partitioned it with the xp setup disc, and i didnt choose quick, so it took about 2 or 3 hours. But thanks for your help guys.

 

[john3]

i partition my hds with disk manager, no problems for me so far.

 

[lancec2c30]

well I am not sure what partitioning a HD does could someone plz tell me??

 

[john3]

you basically divide your one hard drive into "two", or more, hard drives, like u no when u go to my computer and u see ur hard drive tehre C: now lets say u put in a second hard drive, which will most liekly be E:. now if u Partition that 1 hard drive (E into 2 hard drives, when u go to my computer u will see hard drive C: E: and F:. and u can pick how big you want E: and F: to be, so lets say that second hard drive u bought has 40GB storage, u can make E: have 20, and F: have 20, or E: 30 or F: 10, u get it.

 

[AnthraX]

well I am not sure what partitioning a HD does could someone plz tell me??

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_(computing)