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[SOLVED] Additional Hard Drive Questions
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I read what is in the LL manual, but still a little unclear.  What I want to do:

1) Boot to a small primary hard drive (80Gb) as I do now.
2) Add a 500 Gb hard drive as a secondary drive.  This drive would be used as a back-up of the primary and additional storage for music and some video editing clips, etc.

I am using SystemBack (I also have the DejaDup that comes on 2.2) and I would want to set a partition on my secondary drive to the same size as my primary drive and then the remaining space could be used as storage. I am not sure about Systemback, but some similar software like Clonezilla it's difficult to copy your system to a smaller drive partition than your system drive (even if you are only using part of your system drive capacity).  I figured if I make the partition on the second drive equal to the 80Gb drive, then I could not only copy to that, but copy back to the primary in the event of problems.

So, I plan on using Gparted to set the partition sizes on the secondary (80Gb and ~ 420 Gb). Questions:

1) Do I have to format that drive before partitioning, if so what format, how? Right now I think Windows 10 preview is on there, should I "nuke" that first?
2) When I copy my primary drive, I expect it will automatically re-create the existing partitions incl. swap, etc. in that 80Gb partition on the secondary drive? 

Does this make sense, or is there a better way to do this?  I guess another option would be to copy my primary drive to a usb drive, and then just use the whole 500Gb drive for storage? Pretty sure I could back it all up on a 32Gb usb drive.

Two more questions:

I will not be using the secondary drive all the time, and it seems like a waste of energy to power it up all the time and increase wear when I am not using it.
1)  Is there a way other than opening the computer case and disconnecting the power connector to not power-up each time.  Has anyone ever seen a switch to do this?
2)  I am tempted to install a power-up switch on the outside of my case to allow this, anyone ever done this?


Chris
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[SOLVED] Additional Hard Drive Questions - by ChrisL - 12-21-2014, 04:35 PM
Re: Additional Hard Drive Questions - by N4RPS - 12-22-2014, 11:55 AM
Re: Additional Hard Drive Questions - by ChrisL - 01-13-2015, 02:25 AM
Re: Additional Hard Drive Questions - by N4RPS - 01-13-2015, 09:35 AM
Re: Additional Hard Drive Questions - by ukbrian - 01-13-2015, 11:39 AM

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