Formatting And Partitioning A New 3tb Drive To Recreate Existing Sizes ?

Hi,

About to receive a Western Digital blue 3Tb internal drive 5400rpm etc.
It is to replace a dying WD green Caviar 3Tb giving I/O error and freezing up on save to's.
I have backed it up entirely to a WD 4Tb usb_HDD as well as a backup last done a year or so ago to another internal. This being same drive type/size/age and partitions.

Disk management says :-
Disk 4
Type basic
Capacity 2794.39 Gb
Data Storage (D : ) 1676.64 Gb NTFS Healthy Primary Partition
Videos Progs (E : ) 1117.76 Gb NTFS Healthy Primary Partition
Partition Style GUID Partition Table (GPT)
Unallocated space 2 Mb
Reserved space 0 Mb
driver Microsoft
21/06/2006
6.1.7601.19133

also I have seen for it :-
Capacity 2861460Mb
Data Storage (D: ) 1716875 Mb
Videos Progs (E: ) 1144583 Mb

Considering that I am win7 64bit pro, (and planning ahead for win10 and needing a functional PC to do so) and needing to fix PC HDD dying now...
What are the exact steps 1. 2. 3. etc in win7 64bit pro to take to get this up and running in the bay where the drive above will be removed from.
I know how to physically install it, PC off, remove elec plug and SATA, take HDD out, insert new, reboot PC...

but then what, anything on DOS during boot up ?
Do I wait until booted then go to Disk management.
I know it needs formatting , so what in what order and what settings ?
Importantly I need to recreate those partitions, sizes and names to match the departing drive.
When done by my PC guru he would have asked what size D and E and I am sure I would have said 50/50 but given those dissimilar sizes would that be the result of 50/50 and telling the system to take the 'admin space' from E ? I need to recreate those sizes especially as I have data to go back on and backup to O and P of same size, so exactly what must I choose ? (Guru not available at the mo if ever again)

DBenz

 

First, drives typically come from the factory already formatted.

This will not be a boot drive, right? If not, I would not partition it. If me, I would just create two folders and copy the old drives into those folders. That way, the entire disk's capacity will remain available.

 

Hi,
thanks for the idea but no,
for starters adding on D as 1 char to an address can see some of my addresses fall foul of the 255 rule, I dont want to be messing about altering file names then altering links to the files in progs I run that use linked images. I just havent got time to cause myself problems and solve them, when D and E partitions works just fine.

D is my data drive and I want that drive as a partition.
I have the drive come now and cannot install it as hoped to see method here as asked for.

Please someone tell me how to do what I need, i.e what I asked for.

I want it same as the destination drive, I must have D and E with those numbers matching.

unable to proceed unless someone somewhere can talk me through it.

Would formatting by the way seek out and cordon off any bad sectors ?

DBenz.