How can i partition my 320gb sea gate ext harddisk

Have you got any drivers installed for Free Agent? If you have an older OS you will need to insert a system disc for the Drive, or else it won't recognise it.

Hi ,

Windows 2000 and XP : go to this tutorial : http://inoi.com/English/download/partition.pdf

Other OS : here is a link :
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGLL_enBE391BE393&q=partition+external+hard+disc+in+windows+7#q=partition+external+hard+disc+in+windows+7&hl=en&rlz=1T4GGLL_enBE391BE393&prmd=ivns&source=univ&tbs=vid:1&tbo=u&ei=wakkTeHYIM-gOu2IqeMC&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&ct=title&resnum=2&ved=0CDAQqwQwAQ&fp=82d636336a3165f5

But I personaly use http://partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html under Windows 7 .

This should help you .

Regards .

Connect it to your old computer, to see if the backup-copy can be accessed and verified.

http://tricia8765.fatcow.com/SEAGATE.pdf

If you have the ability and space then recover any files that you can

use the RUN option from the start menu

now type in "cmd" then ENTER

Now in the black box that appears type "chkdsk x: /f /r" and press ENTER

The "x" is the drive letter of the drive you wish to check

It may take some time but this will try fix any errors it comes acrosss and you may have to re-start to complete the task.

Now remove any more files that you can.

Use the RUN command again but this time type "compmgmt.msc"

Select Disk management

Make sure you freeagent is listed here.

Right click and select "Format"

Select NTFS as the file system

Do not tic any other boxes

Click OK

When it is done you can move the files back to this drive.

It is quite possible you hit the limits of the FAT32 file system which would have caused the types of error you saw.

First make sure that you have a bootable Windows Vista installation DVD, as you will be unable to use your computer if you don’t. Next, download the GParted Live CD and burn it to cd.
Boot off the GParted cd, and you will see your hard drives in the drop-down list. The first drive is typically your boot drive, but you can check the Flags column to make sure.


Next you’ll need to right-click on the partition and choose Resize/Move from the menu.


Now you can either use the New Size textbox, or just click and drag the partition to make it smaller (or bigger). When you are done, click the Resize/Move button.This doesn’t immediately apply the changes, though. You can make other changes to your partitions and then when you are finished click the Apply button.Depending on the amount of data and the speed of your computer, it can take quite a while to resize the partitions. On my computer it took more than 30 minutes.


Once it’s done, quit, remove the live cd and then reboot your computer. Unless you are very lucky, you’ll be greeted with this horrible error message saying “Windows Failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause.”
Hope this helps!

You can Reformat the system and REMOVE all partitions. Windows setup will create a new partition from available drive space. If you need to save your data,You can also use a utility like partition Magic and resize the partition. There is a trial version available at no charge. just google "partition magic"

It is still under warranty. Contact Seagate about this matter. They should replace it for you at no cost.

windows xp setup not creat the partation.
and not show the tha harddisk,but harddisk are showing the bios setup.
my system is ACER ASPIRE tower Casing.

The problem is that u have done partitions for 160 GB harddisk, so do all the partitions of 40 GB or less than that.