Moving Ahead -- Partitions and Laying Down the Old Install

[Watty]

OK, the reformat problem was solved. See my post in the other chain on
this--Very Slow.

Unfortunately, I did not partition the drive. I had hoped I could do
that after the reformat--too far along in the format check to back out.
Is it possible to do this now?

Here's where I'm headed. I'm going to lay down a 80G installation on
this new large 320G drive of the installation as it was before the 80G
drive holding it died. I recovered all files on the 80G. I'm going to
use unstoppable copier to do that. I would think I would put that in
partition 1 if I make 3 partitions here. BTW, I'm now up to 7% while
waiting for WD to answer their 30 day free installation help.

The plan here is to do the above, so I can see if I can restore my "old"
installation to this new HD.

 

[sgopus]

You should choose a partition size before you format, as you have to have
some kind of partition to install the operating system on, I suggest nothing
smaller than 40 Gig that would give you some growing room, just strictly for
the operating system, data goes on a different partition, just keep in mind,
that hard drive dies you lose all partitions on that drive.