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Updated by Daniel Curtis over 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: 
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 fdisk -l 
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 #* _Example output:_ 
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 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 
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