How Do You Unallocate Space In A Western Digital 500 Gb Hard Drive?
I bought the hard drive for storage not backup so i would like to use the full space of 500 but it has 35 gb allocated space. In my older sata hard drive if i formated the hard drive i got the full space. How do i do it without corrupting the drive or voiding the warranty.
The easiest way is with a program called Partition Magic. It will allow you to reconfigure partitions on the fly, and you can delete and create partitions as easily as you can format a floppy diskette! Otherwise you need some other kind of utility that will allow you to delete and create drive partitions. Partition Magic is pretty much the industry standard.
Just like you would with any drive. Partition and format as you wish. It will neither corrupt the drive nor void your warranty.
Personally, I use GParted:http://gparted.sourceforge.net/
Its free and is the standard for any disk utility toolbox, coming built-in to your OS, plus Live CD and Live USB flavours.