HDD GURU FORUMS

October 4, 2011

Dear Forum,

I am in the process of building a new box and I am going to have

an 80 Gig HDD (until I can afford an SSD) as C: strictly for Windows 7,

and D: for my program files. I will have 2 additional HDD's in my box:

a 1.5TB Hitachi 7K3000 7200 RPM SATA 3 64MB Cache PN 0F12114 as my

storage HDD and a 2TB Hitachi 5K3000 5940 RPM SATA 3 32MB Cache

PN 0F12117 as my backup HDD. I want to pre-partition all of the HDD's

prior to installing Windows 7. After the installation I will then format

the partitions as NTFS.

I plan on making each Hitachi one big extended MS-DOS partition

and creating multiple logical drives ranging from 30 to 500 Gigs.

My question is: Considering the sizes of the Hitachis, will Magic

Boot Disk v2.0 allow me to do this pre-partitioning in DOS in a

timely manner, or can I do this faster in "Partition Magic" or

"Partition Magic type" programs?

If MBD will NOT allow me to do the pre-partitioning, do you have

a suggestion as to a "Partition Magic type" program to use?

Thanks in advance for your help.


Al_Chi

It is a huge question. I need to check out the status first. I am not sure whether Partition Magic type program will work in your case or not. As of my knowledge MBD will help you to do a pre-partitioning as you think. If it will not allow, then only the question of moving to Partition Magic type program comes. Confirming anything on both these things, I need to cross check and make sure first.

30 to 500 Gigs

why the hassle partitioning it this way? any specific purpose?

all programs you have mentioned are outdated. Note NTFS version difference in win7 ( NTFS v5) I suggest to use acronis disk editior . Why to boot from slower old 80 gb disk? Remember Less drives = less power consumption ,less heat generation.

well just use acronis partition magic to create what you like faster in GUI Mode, if you like just in DOS mode.