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    Partitioning a USB drive?

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by korndawg, Nov 4, 2007.

  1. korndawg

    korndawg Notebook Consultant

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    I just purchased an external 200 gig 7200 rpm drive for my 1520 and installed it as an internal. I then took out my factory harddirve and placed that in the external enclosure for use as a USB drive. Well, stupid me forgot to delete the partions on the factory drive. Is there a way (program) where I can delete the partitions on that drive (new external) without swapping it out again? Thanks!
     
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    liquidplasma6 Notebook Evangelist

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    try using your windows vista disk, or use gParted
     
    liquidplasma6, Nov 4, 2007
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    Tried the Vista disk but wouldn't allow it :(
     
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    I just used Partition Magic 8 and it worked wonderfully!
     
    korndawg, Nov 4, 2007
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