new HDD basics?

2008-06-06 09:42:08

#1

prototype: Member; +52|6581

I just bought a Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD5000AAKS 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM

upon initial install/setup do I need to format this drive or should it be good to go right out of the bag?

I am putting it into an external HDD enclosure and it will only be used as a storage drive

Thank you for any info you guys post

2008-06-06 09:43:42

#2

jsnipy: ...; +3,277|6792|...

You will need to format it. Just go into Disk Management to do everything you will need to do (assuming windows).

2008-06-06 09:44:14

#3

liquidat0r: wtf.; +2,223|6897|UK

Well if it needs formatting then format it ... It will probably be formatted though.

2008-06-06 09:50:22

#4

SpIk3y: Minister of Silly Walks; +67|6409|New Jersey

control panel -> administrative tools -> computer management -> disk management

that's for Vista, but I'm sure XP is very similar

2008-06-06 09:58:33

#5

killer21: Because f*ck you that's why.; +400|6861|Reisterstown, MD

SpIk3y wrote:
control panel -> administrative tools -> computer management -> disk management

that's for Vista, but I'm sure XP is very similar

Or a quicker way would be Right click on my computer>Manage>scroll down to storage and disk management is there.

Most new hdd are already formatted but you can check it at DM to make sure.

2008-06-06 09:59:40

#6

prototype: Member; +52|6581

I know HOW to format a drive

I just wanted to know if that model HDD came pre-formatted or If I would need to do it before I started to put all my fiels on it.

thank you for all the info guys

2008-06-06 10:05:41

#7

max: Vela Incident; +1,652|6837|NYC / Hamburg

depends. Sometimes they are, sometimes they are not and sometimes they are formatted all wrong (I got my 1TB drive with a single 100GB FAT partition, wtf?)

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2008-06-06 10:07:22

#8

killer21: Because f*ck you that's why.; +400|6861|Reisterstown, MD

max wrote:
(I got my 1TB drive with a single 100GB FAT partition, wtf?)

Refurb?

2008-06-06 10:08:53

#9

prototype: Member; +52|6581

so it is best just to go ahead and format it ?

2008-06-06 10:11:30

#10

SpIk3y: Minister of Silly Walks; +67|6409|New Jersey

Yeah just format it to be on the safe side. It can't hurt.

2008-06-06 10:12:05

#11

{M5}Sniper3: Typical white person.; +389|7030|San Antonio, Texas

prototype wrote:
so it is best just to go ahead and format it ?

Yes, always reformat new HDDs, even right out of the box. You know it will be in working order then.

2008-06-06 10:12:50

#12

killer21: Because f*ck you that's why.; +400|6861|Reisterstown, MD

prototype wrote:
so it is best just to go ahead and format it ?

Yea sure, but it will probably take a while giving it is a 500gig hdd. You'll probably end up with 480 or so of actual space.

2008-06-06 10:21:16

#13

prototype: Member; +52|6581

how long should it take?

i had to RMA the first drive i got because it gave me block errors and when i tried to format it
it never finished even after 5 hours

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