formatting

hi guys ! help is required from all you brainy people ! im trying to repair my talk talk youview box ! ive been reading up about it all morning and all day yesterday, ive found someone explaining that a new hard drive ( which is what is broken )needs to be formatted to Linux and be over 320 gig, ive got the hard drive 500 gig but formatting is my problem . ive learned using a iso image burned to disc of gparted live can do this so I downloaded and burned the image to disc, what im afraid of is running the disc from start up in case it changes my laptops windows 8...! ive watched a video on youtube showing how to run the disc and how to make partitions but does it go back to my original windows 8 when I eject the disc and reboot the laptop ? or is there and easier way to format an external hard drive to Linux... thank you for your time reading and I hope someone can help! cheers

Oops I read the thread title and instantly thought of our @johnboymartin he is our DigitalWorldz agriculture expert.

The gparted live disc wont effect your laptops Operating system you just have to change the boot sequence of the laptop to boot from cd.

thank you ferret much appreciated m8

Just found this little guide i did ages ago it may help

1. Connect your HDD to you PC and remove you normal PC Hard Drives.

2. Boot the Gparted Live CD.

3. At the blue screen select don't touch key map.

4. It will then ask for your Language input the number to corresponds with your Language.

5. At the mode screen select 0

6. When you see the Gparted terminal highlight the drive and select delete then apply the action on the big green tick on the task-bar.

7. Now from the task-bar select create partition and select apply.

8. Now highlight the drive again right click and select NEW on that screen just change file system to ext3 then click add.

9. Highlight the drive again and right click format to ext3 then click apply from the task-bar and then apply to the pop-up message.

It will now configure the drive.

Now pop the drive back in and boot.

Go to device manager and mount the drive. Then map the drive paths to media/hdd.

miggy said:

Oops I read the thread title and instantly thought of our @johnboymartin he is our DigitalWorldz agriculture expert.

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Farming can be a lonely business lol

johnboymartin said:

Farming can be a lonely business lol

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Pmpl :Laugh:

my tractor

imyeman2000 said:

hi guys ! help is required from all you brainy people ! im trying to repair my talk talk youview box ! ive been reading up about it all morning and all day yesterday, ive found someone explaining that a new hard drive ( which is what is broken )needs to be formatted to Linux and be over 320 gig, ive got the hard drive 500 gig but formatting is my problem . ive learned using a iso image burned to disc of gparted live can do this so I downloaded and burned the image to disc, what im afraid of is running the disc from start up in case it changes my laptops windows 8...! ive watched a video on youtube showing how to run the disc and how to make partitions but does it go back to my original windows 8 when I eject the disc and reboot the laptop ? or is there and easier way to format an external hard drive to Linux... thank you for your time reading and I hope someone can help! cheers

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thread title farmating i am your man i am johnboy when it come to Farming

hahaha ive just noticed that ive put an a instead of an o FORMATING , I was wondering what the farm things were on about ye g**s, sorry guys! ive put the Gparted onto a cd and im still not sure ! do I need to change the hard drive in the laptop to format , its an external hard drive im wanting to do but im wary of harming the bairns laptop as im new to this sort of thing !...when and if I run Gparted live on the laptop does it give you the option to format external device plugged into the laptop or not , that is my main concern and will it affect the laptops hard drive ? and thanks everyone for your replies its appreciated thanks