Re: Does an external USB hard disc need at least one primary partition ?
- From: "Frankly Scarlett" <mdfc01@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:01:32 -0800
Consideration
I have a 4GB Sandisk flash drive. As it came out of the box, it wanted to be
set up using two adjacent letters. Unfortuneatley, my system set-up at work
doesn't allow for ANY free letters until K: (I have 2 HDs, 1 is partitioned
and a CD. Also the network maps a bunch of things.) While I have K/L/M free,
it wouldn't map there.
Resolution - I formatted the drive to 1 drive and used device manager to
specify it was drive M:.
If you are trying to add more letters to your mapping, make sure you have
room in the "alphabet".
"Jason Stacy" <jjstacy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:47b7e585$0$4286$9b4e6d93@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I bought a new external hard disc which I plan to connect through USB in
order to backup
some of my files/directories.
Before using I must create some partitions. Now I am wondering wether I
need at least a dummy
primary partition on this hard disc.
Is this required or can I just put ONLY extended/logical partitions on
this hard disc?
J.
.
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