Hi everyone, I'm really really not a tech head so I'm at my wit's end as to how to do such a simple thing. I need help creating a three partitions for a 500GB drive I just bought. I bought a 1TB drive last week and I'm already facing issues with it. Now I want to partition my new 500GB drive and use it as the backup for the 1TB drive. I am supposed to see Create Partion when I right-click the disk in the Easeus window but all I see is Resize/Move and other options. Please help me.
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How Do I Partition My New External Drive Using Easeus?
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There's already a partition taking up the whole drive, so there's nowhere to create a new partition. I suppose you could delete the existing partition then make a new one, but that's a bit pointless.
Most external drives ship pre-formatted.
Most external drives ship pre-formatted.
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What may be even easier for you is go to the start (you're on windows?) menu and type:
Create and format hard disk
It should pop up with "Create and Format Hard Disk Partitions."
From there, you want to shrink the partition matching your external HDD, (it's in the right click menu) and then use the unallocated space to make another partition. Alternatively, you can delete the main partition for your external HDD and then use the unallocated space that way.
That method would probably work better.
Create and format hard disk
It should pop up with "Create and Format Hard Disk Partitions."
From there, you want to shrink the partition matching your external HDD, (it's in the right click menu) and then use the unallocated space to make another partition. Alternatively, you can delete the main partition for your external HDD and then use the unallocated space that way.
That method would probably work better.
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