Quick 200 gig HD QUESTION!!

[DaviDaVinci]

Just installed a western Digital 200 gig drive into an external USB 2.0 case.

XP see's 183 gigs before partitioning.

Should I just make one partition?

Keep it basic not dynamic right?

I'm just using this as a portable media drive/backup.

 

[Sid59]

i don't understand why an external drive needs to be partition. just use nice folders. it's not in you computer, and prolly just to back up data.

my vote, no partition.

 

[DaviDaVinci]

i was just thinking in the sense like I can encrypt one huge partition and keep like an 8 gig partition where i would initially moves files to then run antirus on there and then move to encrypted part.

Idea was that i would hate to get any viruses on this drive when i take it to friends or whatever's pc's

Then again, am i thinking like an idiot that i am?

 

[poppyq]

If you're running an anti-virus on your system just make sure it has real-time protection and it should catch anything before it would even get copied to the external drive.

 

[Crusty]

Originally posted by: Sid59
i don't understand why an external drive needs to be partition. just use nice folders. it's not in you computer, and prolly just to back up data.

my vote, no partition.

Ummm...you have to have ONE partition.