Use of WD Hi-Capacity Drive with Linux
Am considering buying WD hi-capacity external drive and installing Linux Mint. Should I expect a problem doing this? Not a techi whiz - just a plain ole user. Plan is to set boot up from ext drive and go ahead and let MS install Win 10 on main drive (now Win 7 Pro 64 bit)?
Appreciate any helpful advice....Thank you....Ray Borden. usicfund@aol.com |
I'm not quite sure what you mean by "hi-capacity," but I have had several WD external drives over the years and have gotten excellent service from all of them.
I currently have a 250GB, a 1TB, and a 2TB in use. I can't speak to Windows 10, as I have avoided it in a most dedicated manner. |
I would format as gpt if greater than 2T.
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You should not have any issues as long as you install your MS Windows first then attach the external drive for the Gnu/Linux install. Most modern Gnu/Linux installers should recognize that large footprint drive and allow you to select the filesystem to use, then format to setup the filesystem to use for the drive. GPT & MBR; Quote:
Hope this helps. Have fun & enjoy! :hattip: |
Hello and welcome to LQ.
There exists a real possibility that you can bork your install of windows in this exercise. There are basically two ways that I prevent any chance of disaster on such a task (outside of having a full backup that has been tested.) One is to remove the internal hard drive either power or data cable. (ESD!!) Be sure your bios has the usb drive shown in hard drive order usually after this. Then boot to media and load to usb drive. Since I am pretty lazy I tend to just create a free virtual machine instance and without a virtual hard drive. I attach the usb to the VM and use a linux iso image as my cd source. Then load to usb in the VM. |
I wonder, would a "high capacity drive" be one using shingled recording? If so, I suspect it could be frustrating to try to run an OS from...
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Ray, you should re-consider placing an email in a public post.
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