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Adding a second hard drive to your HDA (view source)
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Note that Windows can't read ext3 partitions, so if you want dual-boot Windows on your Amahi PC, or if you intend to connect this hard drive to a Windows computer later, you should format as NTFS instead, and you should do that on Windows before you connect the drive in your HDA.<br/>
Remember that using NTFS partitions on Linux will be slower that using ext3 partitions, so you should only use NTFS if you really need it.<br/>
How much slower: compare the blue bars (NTFS-3G) with the red bars (ext3) on [http://www.tuxera.com/products/tuxera-ntfs-commercial/performance/ this graph].<br/>'''Be sure to read the [[Adding_a_second_hard_drive_to_your_HDA#NTFS_partitions|last section about NTFS]] on this page if you use a NTFS partition!'''
To know what device (/dev/sdX) you need to partition and format, use the following command, in a [[Terminal, as root|Open Terminal as root]]:
