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07-19-2004, 12:10 PM
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Seagate HDD and Diskwizard
I just bought a new Seagate 80 GB HDD "ST380013A" for the computer I'll be building in the next month or so.
The installation instructions say to use the included Seagate utility "DiskWizard" to set up the HDD (to partition and format the drive). I'll be installing Win XP Home as the OS on the drive. Is it necessary to use the Seagate utility to format and partition the drive or can (should) this be taken care of during the OS installation? As a side note, the new drive was made in China (the last Seagate I bought was made in Tiawan, I believe). Would anyone have any concerns about this as far as reliability. Dave |
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07-19-2004, 12:11 PM
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Since you are going to install XP on the drive, you don't need to fool around with the DiskWizard utility. You will be able to partition and format the drive during the OS install.
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07-19-2004, 08:55 PM
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It doesn't really matter *where* drives are made these days - your chances of getting a bad drive from any of the big 3 (WD, Maxtor, Seagate) are about the same, and it also looks like Hitachi and Samsung are getting their acts together too.
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07-19-2004, 09:09 PM
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You don't need to use that wizard, you can partiton and format using any utility/OS you want to. They just give you that to be sure that you have some way of doing it, as not everyone will.
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07-19-2004, 09:36 PM
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It's actually easier to do it during OS installation. Did that when I got my 120GB Seagate. Good drives. Samsung is getting their act together finally, glc. Glad to see it too, as they make so many other quality products.
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07-19-2004, 09:49 PM
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Yeah, but they have a ways to go with their optical drives - they have a very high failure rate.
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07-19-2004, 11:25 PM
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Thanks
Thanks for all the answers.
I'll format and partition the drive during OS install and not worry about where the drive was made. Now, will I use FAT or NTFS??? Fuel for another thread. I'll read up on that more, but pretty sure it'll be NTFS. |
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07-19-2004, 11:28 PM
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Do your homework, but I would suggest NTFS.
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07-20-2004, 12:41 AM
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Definitely NTFS unless you want at least 3 partitions and/or a multi OS system, there's a 32gb limit for FAT32 partitions created with 2K/XP.
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