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valetillidie
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Seagate 3tb Barracuda Hd Help Needed

Hi i've just built a htpc and have installed a Seagate 3tb Barracuda drive but i've got a problem i can't seem to sort. I started to install windows 7 installation and go to the screen where you pick what harddrive to install windows on. I wanted to partition the drive into 500gb for windows and the rest for files ie movies,mp3 and so on but i over shot the 500gb to 750gb. So i clicked delete partition to change to the 500gb i wanted but the the 750gb partion will not delete. I even tried to install windows on the 750gb instead of downsizing to 500gb but i get error 0x80042468. How can i get the drive back default size.

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Re: Seagate 3tb Barracuda Hd Help Needed

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Easy one is to slave it and then in disk management delete and format

 

if you want to carve it up use Diskwizard to make partitions.

 

Anyway see this

 

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2604034

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