Question Is this Partioning a Problem?

[edo101]

Hey guys, I shucked my Seagate Expansion drive. It had two partitions. One was FAT32 which is hidden from Windows and the other was exFat. Since I am using Windows I went to my computer and formatted my drive to NTFS. However now the drive has this FAT32 partition and the main NTFS partition.

Will this be a problem?

 

[dwd999]

You could use a free real disk tool like Gparted to create a single partition and format it.

 

[SkyNetRising]

However now the drive has this FAT32 partition and the main NTFS partition.

Will this be a problem?

No. That's not a problem.
Simply you won't be able to use those 200MB.

 

[edo101]

You could use a free real disk tool like Gparted to create a single partition and format it.

I thought about that but wasn't sure if I should be tampering with what appears to be a special partition for the drive? I have no idea what's in there but I was afraid if I wiped it, it would cause issues

 

[dwd999]

I thought about that but wasn't sure if I should be tampering with what appears to be a special partition for the drive? I have no idea what's in there but I was afraid if I wiped it, it would cause issues

If the disk already contains data, just leave it there, it doesn't waste much space. Only Windows boot system drives require special partitions, plain data disks do not.

 

[TerryLaze]

I thought about that but wasn't sure if I should be tampering with what appears to be a special partition for the drive? I have no idea what's in there but I was afraid if I wiped it, it would cause issues

Yup, it could be a seagate boot partition to run some tool or backup, if you search for the particular model in google you will probably find some info.