hard drive partitioning
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HH. Smith Jr.
Hi Guys,
I have a computer that crashed. I got a USB to sata/Ide hard drive converter and I removed all my important files. The hard drive is still mounted in the chassis. My question is , is there an accessible software where I can partition the hard drive from my laptop through the adapter connection.
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Soronel Haetir
There shouldn't be any need to partition the drive. Partitioning has
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nothing to do with drive letter assignment (a drive might have been "c:" in one computer but you hook it up to another and it might be "f:" for example). My experience is that the existing windows drive management system is accessible enough (not particularly friendly but then it only very rarely needs to be used). On 12/21/16, HH. Smith Jr. <teos1@...> wrote:
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HH, Did the computer crash secondary to drive malfunction? I ask because once a hard drive begins to malfunction neither reformatting it and/or repartitioning it will cure the underlying problem. As Soronel has mentioned there is no need (though I understand you may still want) to repartition a drive unless you want to break that single physical drive into multiple logical drives that will be recognized by Windows or want to partition off space to remain unused for some reason. If the drive itself is not failing then we can talk partitioning if that's still something you want to do. "Be Yourself" is the worst advice you can give to some people. ~ Tom Masson |
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HH. Smith Jr.
Brian,
I installed windows10 anniversary, if I had a choice, and everything was fine for a little while. It then started slowing down; then, the internet options in the control and in the browser became inaccessible. It just won’t open. I threw everything in my toolbox at it, no cando. The last ditch effort according to all my internet research said to refresh the system. I did that and the bottom dropped out of it. After I got the adapter hooked up, I looked at what was left and what was found wasn’t anything worth bringing home to mommy. Most of the system folders were label “not found”. I can only smile a little now because I backed up my folders/files .
From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of Brian Vogel
HH, Did the computer crash secondary to drive malfunction? I ask because once a hard drive begins to malfunction neither reformatting it and/or repartitioning it will cure the underlying problem. As Soronel has mentioned there is no need (though I understand you may still want) to repartition a drive unless you want to break that single physical drive into multiple logical drives that will be recognized by Windows or want to partition off space to remain unused for some reason. If the drive itself is not failing then we can talk partitioning if that's still something you want to do. "Be Yourself" is the worst advice you can give to some people. ~ Tom Masson |
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HH, Then, at least as a first pass, I'd just run a format on that drive while it's connected as an external drive on the other computer. Then, since the machine is already licensed for Windows 10 based on its motherboard, I'd download a fresh copy of the Windows 10 installation media and install from scratch. I've known of problems with Windows 10, but none quite so catastrophic and "incurable by usual means" as yours had been. They're certainly not typical in any way. "Be Yourself" is the worst advice you can give to some people. ~ Tom Masson |
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