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ingeborgdot
03-22-2007, 03:28 AM
I have an external hard drive that will be used for backup. I am not used to the vista management and have a question. In the little box on the left it says Disk 5 Basic Online.
If I right click on it it brings up the box that says convert to dynamic disk and below that convert to GPT disk or MBR disk. On the other box to the right (the long one) if I right click it says New Simple Volume. Anyone care to tell me which to choose? Thanks.

sreedx2
03-22-2007, 06:54 AM
you want it partitioned as a simple volume, if that is what you are asking ?

ingeborgdot
03-22-2007, 07:38 AM
Ok, got it. But what about GPT or MBR?

sreedx2
03-22-2007, 07:53 AM
well MBR is your master boot record .. you having trouble partitioning the hard drive ?

EDIT: I am guessing it is already partitioned... you do not want to convert it to anything ..