Can you make and utilize multiple partitions in windows with this drive?
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You can, but windows doesn't support it due to software limitations. I am having issues assigning a drive letter to my second partition on Win7, unfortunately... https://superuser.com/questions/436539/how-to-access-both-partitions-on-a-bootable-usb-flash-drive-in-windows http://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/cannot-assign-a-drive-letter-to-a-usb-flash-stick-partition.319500/ The first link actually mentions it's a common issue with ALL windows OS.
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Yes, but it has to be formatted to exFAT if you want the files to be over 4gbs. (NTFS also for Windows)
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I may be mistaken, but windows will either not allow or not recognize partitions on a thumb drive. There may be 3rd party software to trick it, or circumvent this.If I am mistaken please do let me know.
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You can, but windows doesn't support it due to software limitations. I am having issues assigning a drive letter to my second partition on Win7, unfortunately...https://superuser.com/questions/436539/how-to-access-both-partitions-on-a-bootable-usb-flash-drive-in-windowshttp://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/cannot-assign-a-drive-letter-to-a-usb-flash-stick-partition.319500/The first link actually mentions it's a common issue with ALL windows OS.
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I think you mean NTFS, and yes.. Go to computer management - Disk Management - then format the disk to your needs
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You sure can. I formatted the drive to use it as a Linux installation disk.
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umm im honestly not sure iv never done or even thought of partitioning a usb drive for more then one partition. i would just try it out the worst that can happen is it doesn't work but you still have a thumb drive haha
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Yes. It looks like you can put 2 drives in if you want. I suggest an SSD as your boot drive, and this one for storage.
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Basic rule of thumb is that this will take up 2 slots. Exactly two. If you only have one Drive slot available, then no.
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YOU NEED TO READ THIS LINK ABOUT DISK MANAGEMENT IN ORDER FOR THE OTHER TERRABYTES TO BE USABLE. http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-performance/i-have-a-3-tb-drive-windows-7-ultimate-wont-format/b1cc3811-f25f-e011-8dfc-68b599b31bf5
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Yes you can, but there are lots of operating system backup programs that make an image of the entire partition into a single file or span of files which don't need a separate partition at all, which are smaller total volume due to being compressed, and read and write much faster to a USB flash drive due to being a single large sequential read or write.These backup utilities can also usually extract and restore individual files or groups of them you select as well, so partitioning and backing up thousands of little files to different partitions on a thumbdrive opposed to what I described above isn't a good solution. One such backup software is Acronis Trueimage. Yes you can, but there are lots of operating system backup programs that make an image of the entire partition into a single file or span of files which don't need a separate partition at all, which are smaller total volume due to being compressed, and read and write much faster to a USB flash drive due to being a single large sequential read or write.These backup utilities can also usually extract and restore individual files or groups of them you select as well, so partitioning and backing up thousands of little files to different partitions on a thumbdrive opposed to what I... » Read More Yes you can, but there are lots of operating system backup programs that make an image of the entire partition into a single file or span of files which don't need a separate partition at all, which are smaller total volume due to being compressed, and read and write much faster to a USB flash drive due to being a single large sequential read or write.These backup utilities can also usually extract and restore individual files or groups of them you select as well, so partitioning and backing up thousands of little files to different partitions on a thumbdrive opposed to what I described above isn't a good solution. One such backup software is Acronis Trueimage. « Show Less
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I use these at work all the time duplicating Windows 7 Enterprise drives. After we we dupe to a larger drive, we just tell Windows 7 to expand the partition.
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You can format this drive to either FAT32, NTFS, ExFAT, or whatever. Will work for system backup or making a recovery disk.
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It can but you need to use either the utility that comes with it or you need to manually partition and format it using disk management in windows.
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No. This product requires the source drive to be smaller than the destination. There is a high chance of failure if you would try using a smaller destination since the product is not designed to pull certain partitions or sectors on the disk.
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Yes, it does. You can use one 2TB HDD as your main drive and the other as your backup, or you can use both HDDs at the same time for a combined 4TB HDD.
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Yes. Configuring the drives as RAID0 or JBOD will give you combined size of all drives with no redundancy presented to Windows as a single logical drive.
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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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It'd probably be best to consult the WD web site. I didn't partition mine, but I did make it bootable.
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You should ALWAYS have redundancy, especially with these kinds of drives. Yeah, they are cheap, but your data isn't. Buy two and use one as a backup. I learned the hard way myself.