So, I bought a nice 3TB External Hard drive to back up pictures and other files to and see if removing all that off my main internal drives helped speed up boots and such, plus just to have a back up of them.
The drive comes as 1 large 3 TB partition, but what I want to know is how do I make it into smaller partitions, so perhaps I could designate them for specific uses, like 50 gigabyte, 100 gigabytes etc? That way I could store pictures in one area, games in another, etc?
I tried shrinking the existing volume by 50 gig and now it shows as unallocated, but I can do nothing with it. I am unable to assign it a drive lettter, reintegrate it back into the other partition which is active, or use that area in any way now.
So, do I have to reformat the drive? I thought I knew how to do this ages ago, but really have had no need to mess around with it in many years.
The drive comes as 1 large 3 TB partition, but what I want to know is how do I make it into smaller partitions, so perhaps I could designate them for specific uses, like 50 gigabyte, 100 gigabytes etc? That way I could store pictures in one area, games in another, etc?
I tried shrinking the existing volume by 50 gig and now it shows as unallocated, but I can do nothing with it. I am unable to assign it a drive lettter, reintegrate it back into the other partition which is active, or use that area in any way now.
So, do I have to reformat the drive? I thought I knew how to do this ages ago, but really have had no need to mess around with it in many years.
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