How to Create a New Partition for Free Agent
With a Seagate Free Agent hard drive, you can store media files or backup data in an external location and conserve space on your computer's primary internal hard drive. Free Agent drives are compatible with both PC and Mac systems, but you must select a format type when first setting up the drive. If you want to keep both PC and Mac files on a Free Agent hard drive, you can create a second partition to separate the two types of data.
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Instructions
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PC Instructions
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Connect your Seagate Free Agent hard drive to your computer using a standard USB cable.
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Open the Start menu, right-click on the "My Computer" icon and choose the "Manage" option.
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Click on the "Disk Management" tab on the left side of the window to view a list of all the hard drives currently connected to your computer.
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Right-click on the Seagate Free Agent icon and select the "New Partition" option.
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Choose "Primary partition" and then hit "Next."
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Select the number of megabytes you want to assign to the new partition and hit "Next" again.
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Choose a drive letter for the new partition, select the "NTFS" format type and then hit "Finish" to create the new partition.
Mac Instructions
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Connect your Seagate Free Agent hard drive to your computer using a standard USB cable.
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Launch the Disk Utility application on your Mac computer.
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Highlight your Seagate Free Agent hard drive from the list of available drives on the left side of the window and then go to the "Partition" tab.
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Click on the plus symbol and enter a name for the new partition.
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Choose how many gigabytes to assign to the new partition, select the "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)" format option and hit the "Apply" button to create the new partition.
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