Safely remove hardware, also partitioning new HDD?

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Kenny - 17 Oct 2006 22:02 GMT

1.Why does a newly added internal SATA HDD appear in this but not a wireless
USB adapter?

2.New SATA internal drive, wanted it split into 2 roughly equal partitions.
Created one logical partition but when I went to create the second the only
option I had was Primary partition.
Why is this and does it matter?

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JS - 17 Oct 2006 22:21 GMT

When you created the Extended partition did you specify the full capacity of
the drive prior to creating the Logical drive?

JS

> 1.Why does a newly added internal SATA HDD appear in this but not a
> wireless USB adapter?
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> only option I had was Primary partition.
> Why is this and does it matter?

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Bob I - 17 Oct 2006 22:33 GMT

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> 1.Why does a newly added internal SATA HDD appear in this but not a wireless
> USB adapter?

Because SATA can be HOT SWAPPED, but the wireless won't have data pending.

> 2.New SATA internal drive, wanted it split into 2 roughly equal partitions.
> Created one logical partition but when I went to create the second the only
> option I had was Primary partition.
> Why is this and does it matter?

You may have only ONE extended partition which is where the Logical
partition was placed, you may have up to 4 Primary partitions or 3
Primary and 1 extended partitions.

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