I just got a 750GB portable hard drive, and I want to be able to backup my data to some of it (I've only got an 80GB hard drive in my PC), and run portable apps, store VM disks, and store old data on the rest of it. Best way to do this? Partitions? Folders?
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Yeah, I recommend just using folders. Possibly one that just says "HDBackups" or something.
Yep, haven't been around for a bit. Thing is it's a Western Digital drive, and it uses it's own backup software/folder system, and it seems like it puts the backups in a random number'd folder at the root of the drive, that's why I was asking about partitions.
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I would partition such a huge drive (amazing my new 16gb flash drive is already 75% full). Mainly because I don't like having my old stuff mixed up with my new stuff (which is why I have a "Current Projects" folder on my flash drive).
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only if he wants to use it in linux. Windows won't see it. Unless you flip the bit. I'd like to know how that works out
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he was talking abt harddrive. here you can make any partitioning you want and windows will take it. It is different to flash .
Otto Sykora
Basel, Switzerland
Probably it is important to format it in Fat 32 instead of ntsc !
I've got one formated in NTSC, and once it's done and filled up, it's a problem to re-format it ! (it wont work properly on Vista and probably Windows 7 !
Formerly Gringoloco
Windows XP Pro sp3 x32
NTSC is a common US TV Output Format.
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Must be one of those new multi-media drives?
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All the new drives use Blu-ray.
Even if he was talking about TV signal, NTSC is basically illegal to broadcast now :P.
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But probably quite obvious I did mean 'NTFS'
(Double checked, I spelled it right this time)
It's just if I connect my usb-hard drive to my friend his Vista PC, most of the portable apps don't work properly ! Due to some privilege problem.
There is a thread about this some where else on this forum!
https://portableapps.com/node/18970#comment-117357
Formerly Gringoloco
Windows XP Pro sp3 x32
Fat 32 on a 750GB Drive?
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Windows won't, so I hear, but you can with other tools. I forget what the cap is. My 16GB Flash Voyager is FAT32 so it's not below that.
The journaling feature in NTFS is said to be a problem in some portable cases.
External hard drives are awesome. Load 'er up with PA and rock Portable Firefox at installed Firefox speeds.
(In case if I run out of space on my 16gb Titanium...)
How well does your Flash Voyager run Firefox and Thunderbird (simultaneously under heavy usage)?
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I don't run Thunderbird, at all. I have no use for it. I use webmail via Firefox.
It runs Firefox just fine, but if I run VLC while Firefox is running and try to play an Xvid .avi (e.g. a LOST/24 episode) the video will lag.
Read/write speeds are around 22-24 whatever measurement... I posted HDtune results for it in a topic where everyone was doing so. That topic really should be a sticky in off-topic.
I have not 750gb drive, but 500gb one and use fat32 on it, appart from a 50gb partition with ntfs for the case I have to store some big file like an iso of dvd for example.
fat32 is more versatile, can be read by linux too , and can be used as media also by bootable live systems without problems.
OK, windows will refuse to format it , but gparted or what ever will do it.
Otto Sykora
Basel, Switzerland
I´ve a 500GB external hard drive and this is how I manage it. I´ve 5 partitions
1- Empty / public with 100GB
2- PortableApps and Portable Virtual Machines (Portable VirtualBox)
3- Backup of My PC files. I use FreefileSync with multiple jobs in batch mode
4- Restore points as well as a clone of my main hard drive
5- Multiple Live USBs using SARDU
Three partitions are encrypted with a Hidden Volume using Truecrypt and all formated in NTFS because it´s faster (the outer truecrypt volumes are in fat).
Fat32 Format will do it
Well, this works for me so far, but you can put everything in folders as well. I personally prefer the partitions because each one is more clean and for the encryption stuff. i.e if I use it in a infected computer I would have to desinfect only the public and the live usb partitions (I can even mount the encrypted ones in read-only mode so that they don´t get infected).
Hope this helps.