Drive formatting

[Daniel Robitaille]

On Dec 10, 2007 8:04 PM, William Frick <wfrick at rogers.com> wrote:
> Hi all:
>
> I have recently upgraded to a newer machine that has only SATA ports and
> I have a number of IDE drives that are still quite useful in capacity. I
> bought an external drive case to use them through the USB port. Rather
> than reconstruct an old machine, is there a way to partition and format
> through the USB port ? I've looked through various system menus but no
> options are apparent. Suggestions ?

have you looked at gparted?  It's not installed by default, so you may
have to install it using synaptic.  That's the software I use when I
need to format or modify a disk partition.



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Daniel Robitaille