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Question by : How do i make my SSD as my boot drive and my hardrive as my storage for my computer?
I have a SsD ( solid state drive) and a western digital black 1tb hard drive but i don’t know how to configure the raid so that the SSD be my boot drive so when i turn my computer on it will boot a lot faster and i want to use my 1tb hard drive as my storage…can you guys help me with this problem?….i know that it can be done but i just don’t know how to do it.

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Answer by BYEBYE
The Windows OS needs to be installed on the SSD and not the HDD. im not exactly sure what your problem is but i hope that helped.

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Question by : how do i format a brand new hard drive to be used as a removeable storage device?
i have a brand new 1.5 TB hard drive and i want to format it to be used as just a storage device without installing an operating system. is there a way to do this?

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Answer by chris-o
Accessing Disk Management

There are a few different ways to access Disk Management. I’ll list three different methods so choose whichever is more convenient.

* Method 1 – Start > Control Panel > Performance and Maintenance > Administrative Tools. Double click Computer Management and then click Disk Management in the left hand column.
* Method 2 – By default, Administrative Tools is not shown on the Start Menu but if you have modified the Start Menu (by right clicking the Start button and selecting Properties > Customize) so it is shown then just select Start > Administrative Tools > Computer Management and then click Disk Management in the left hand column.
* Method 3 – Click Start > Run and type diskmgmt.msc in the Open: line and click OK. The Disk Management snap-in will open.

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Question by tinhfoil: Why does formatting my ntfs 60gb usb hard drive to fat32 lowers the storage space from 60 to only 32 gb?
Any ways to format it to fat32 without losing hdd storage space?
Found a way for my ps2 to connect a usb hdd to my ps2 but it can only read fat 32.

So how do you create 2 partitions?
Ah nvm found my answer thanks alot! I pick you as best answer!

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Answer by NorthRockSEO
Fat32 can only read up to 32GB. Therefore what you could do is create two fat32 partitions each being 30gb or one being 30 and the otehr being the remainder.

Why use fat32 Mac can read NTFS dont see what your trying to do.

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Question by : Building a desktop PC. Can I use a USB External Hard Drive for storage instead of an internal one?
Will my PC be able to recognise it?

I have some consumer hard drives for storing pictures and stuff on. Can I usb this to the motherboard and use it as my main storage device.

Help appreciated!

Motherboard is Asus P8H61-M LE/USB3 Intel H61 Socket 1155 8 Channel HD Audio mATX

I plan to run Linux Fedora.

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Answer by Evan
Yes. you can use a USB hard drive as a primary drive.

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Question by tukee25: How can I get my Maxtor personal storage drive to work with Mac OS 10.4?
I have a Maxtor Persontal Storage external drive connected to my Mac Mini with an Intel Core Duo. It see’s the drive but I am unable to use the drive, it’s in read only. If I try to use the Disk Utility for Mac OS, I am unable to format the drive because all of the options are grayed out. Is there any way of formatting the drive so my mac can read it? I had it connected to a PC but I’ve decided to go 100% mac but I cant get this drive to work.

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Answer by rickrudge
Hello tukee25,

Have you been able to repair permissions using your Disk Utility? That might unlock everything all at once, so that you can, then, reformat the whole hard drive.

Best of luck to you.

–Rick

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