N120 partition... Are you given the option "not to partition" or at least chose the amount of space the hidden file uses? I was told it takes one half of the entire HD as the hidden D: drive...!!! This is not acceptable to me! I have not opened up my N120 yet, hoping to get some advice from users who have already set up their netbooks.Thank you again for any help given to me,Shirley N120 partition... Are you given the option "not to partition" or at least chose the amount of space the hidden file uses? I was told it takes one half of the entire HD as the... » Read More N120 partition... Are you given the option "not to partition" or at least chose the amount of space the hidden file uses? I was told it takes one half of the entire HD as the hidden D: drive...!!! This is not acceptable to me! I have not opened up my N120 yet, hoping to get some advice from users who have already set up their netbooks.Thank you again for any help given to me,Shirley « Show Less
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Thank you so much! I will look for this when I start the netbook. I did read in the NC10 posts that someone had the same problem and ended up wiping the hard drive clean, reinstalling her own copy of XP Pro and then via an external drive reinstalled the programs/drivers on the Samsung CD. So... worse case senerio, I am able to do this also. Thanks again,Shirley
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No. I tried hooking up a 3 TB drive and you have to format it NTSF which doesn't go up to 3 TB.Tech support said you can format the drive with two partitions. But that didn't work for me.
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well i can answer the first part of the question it has two drive one is main and the other is a back up 750gb for both hard drive, and for the second part idk i can answer it completely but ill give it a try, the hard drive is not original, it uses other hard drive from other brand to save price. i hope i answer your question. ( BY THE WAY IM USING THIS COMPUTER RIGHT NOW LOL!!!)
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I've been using 120gb with another 120gb as extra storage. I therefore think 500gb is ample, especially if you can always get external storage later for backup. I run windows8.1.
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I was just able to partition a drive and load it on both computers. I've been useing a lot of answers from the internet for loading and moveing stuff around.
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I don't think there's a reliable answer because I think WD puts in whatever drive is available. I haven't heard WD give any answer to this question. It's really slow, so it may be a 5400 drive.
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I use MacFuse to access my NTFS partition on Bootcamp. Am just ordering the drive now, will see if MacFuse+NTFS is any faster or slower than Fat32.
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I'm the one that answered your question about the different sizes of storage system....my answer was rather long. Anyway, forgot to give u my email address if u have further questions. It is kevtam07@yahoo.com
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As commenter Super Geek suggests, if you're using a PC, then you will need to reformat it as Fat32. If you have any data on it, you will need to back it up elsewhere in order to reformat the drive for PC.
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to you it looks like 1 drive. The firmware on the drive uses the ssd for the most active files. you don't control that. format the partition and load your os. i think you will like it! I am really very happy with the performance; it is very smooth and very consistent.
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Hello Suzann,I have never used my 32g for anything other than storing files. Sorry I am no help. I would guess that it is p[ossible to partition as they 32 g and up are ssd
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I'm pretty sure it has just one hard drive. I don't think they could physically fit a second hard drive into a netbook as it is. I had an ASUS Eee PC 1000HA which had two partitions, each at about 80GB. Once I installed Linux, only one hard drive was detected with a capacity of about 149GB, so there was one hard drive in that netbook.
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You need to format the drive before use. So if you have some files on it, you will lose that. Beware!!!!!
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Zhi:Thanks for all your great explanations.Maybe S.Pachella knows how to put both the pc and netbook on the same network, but I don't. Could you explain? Linking a pc w/DVD to the netbook seems like such a perfect approach. Thx.Gayle
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In my experience, all of the capacity is unscripted. When you open the drive, you did not see even folders (not to mention files) until you go over entire unencryption (take some minutes to finish).
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Try formating it in other way than FAT32. I use NTFS, which allowes me to copy larger files etc.
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yes it did for me but when it did it made my recovery just big enough for the files on it and windows kept giving me error messages that recovery was out of space. So I used " paragon partition manager 2013 free " to expand my "factory_image (f:)" drive. No problems after that. Im not the greatest but I was able to figure this out just by trial and error. You might even have better luck. Hope this answers our question. Feel free to comment back.