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Yesterday I bought a 320 GB Transcend portable hard disk. Well the actual storage space was roughly 300 GB. It came with a pre-installed software for managing the drive and had only one drive. The next thing to do was to partition the drive.
Preparatory Steps
Delete Existing Partition
- Right click on the drive and select ‘Delete Volume..’
- You will be prompted for confirmation, click ‘Yes’
- You will find the entire drive as Unallocated
Create New Volume from Unallocated Space
- Right click on ‘Unallocated’ and select ‘New Simple Volume’.
- You will be taken to ‘New Simple Volume Wizard’ window.
- Enter volume size and click next to continue.
- You can choose to select a drive letter for the newly created drive
- Select the following options and click next to continue.
‘Format this volume with the following settings:’
File system as ‘NTFS’
Check ‘Perform a quick format’
- Click finish to complete the process.
- Repeat the process to create more drives