Comments on: How Do You Unallocate Space In A Western Digital 500 Gb Hard Drive?

By: Linux OS

Linux OS — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:15:09 +0000

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.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 21:31:53 +0000

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.