Feature #586
Updated by Daniel Curtis about 9 years ago
I recently bought a Western Digital Black2 Hybrid SSD drive for my laptop. My initial assumption was that the drive would show up as two different drives, however this assumption was wrong; whole drive shows up as a single contiguous drive and NOT as a 120GB SSD and 1TB spinning disk. spinning. When I received the drive, only 120GB were accessible, and the extra 1TB was missing; the extra 1TB can only be initialized with the partitioning utility provided by Western Digital. To start, the 1TB needed to be initialized; I needed to download the hard drive partitioning utility (which is Windows only) in order for the extra 1TB to show up. Once the extra 1TB was initialized I wanted to partition my drive using gparted on a live lubuntu disc. * This is the partition layout of my hybrid drive for a Windows 7 partition (100MB + 50GB) and an Arch Linux Partition (~61.5GB); along with a 1TB extended partition holding an NTFS partition for shared storage: Partition: <pre> fdisk -l </pre> #* _Example output:_ <pre> Disk /dev/sda: 1120.2 GB, 1120239009792 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 136194 cylinders, total 2187966816 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00075f14 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 2048 206847 102400 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda2 * 206848 105064447 52428800 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda3 105064448 234440703 64688128 83 Linux /dev/sda4 234440704 2187966815 976763056 5 Extended /dev/sda5 234442753 2187966463 976761855+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT </pre>