Setting up new USB drive

**[email protected]** · July 5th 07, 02:54 AM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage

On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 04:27:18 GMT, _
(Harry331) wrote:

Thanks very much Harry for your help! I appreciate it.

Formatting a drive is a peice of cake.

Control Panel | Admin Tools | Computer Management |
Storage | Disk Manager. Select the (unformated) drive |
right-click | Format.

Can someone please give me some tips as to:
- whether I can partition/format this drive without taking apart my
computer or someone else's?

If you have a USB enclosure, you can put your drive there,
and plug it to the USB.

-if I need to take apart my computer, do I need to put WinXP on it in
order to partition/format it? (FAT-32 preferred).

No need to put XP on the (slave) drive if you already have another
(master) drive with XP running.

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**Rod Speed** · July 5th 07, 09:31 PM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage

Some escapee from a lunatic asylum, desperately cowering behind
Bunny who usually posts under the ****nert nick,
wrote just what you'd expect from an escapee from a lunatic asylum.

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