NEED HELP... EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE

[Guest]

I usually find the answers to my questions by reading these boards but this
time i just need some direct (non-technical) help or advice.
I bought an external Western Digital usb 2.0 hard drive for my sony vaio
laptop. I needed it because my drive has about 5 gb left available and I have
been doing a lot of video lately. The new external hdd has 80gb and came
formatted as FAT32.
I already reformatted it to NTFS and here is my concern......
extended partition, primary, logical drive, changing the letter from f to
something else, as my dvd burner is also plug and play........
hope someone can shed some light on this and thanks for the great work you
all do.
PAUL

 

[Tom]

I usually find the answers to my questions by reading these boards but this
time i just need some direct (non-technical) help or advice.
I bought an external Western Digital usb 2.0 hard drive for my sony vaio
laptop. I needed it because my drive has about 5 gb left available and I have
been doing a lot of video lately. The new external hdd has 80gb and came
formatted as FAT32.
I already reformatted it to NTFS and here is my concern......
extended partition, primary, logical drive, changing the letter from f to
something else, as my dvd burner is also plug and play........
hope someone can shed some light on this and thanks for the great work you
all do.
PAUL

Give it a drive letter specific to that device, and and make it a primary drive; you can have up to four anyway.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the quick response. Is it alright if i install and run programs
off of the new hdd Fdrive.... ie roxio, keeping all my vid and pics on F
along with the actuall program and it will have nothing to do with my c drive
(actually c and d)...... thanks