how do I add partition to my external hard drive.

I tried to use partition magic to add a partition to my 250 gig usb2 external hard drive, so that I can install Linux, but it only shows my internal Hard drive C: and it's partition D:. I tried uninstalling PM and reinstalling it in drive I, but I can't seem to get it to run in that drive. How do I partition a usb2 HD, or get PM to recognize it?

 

Yes, it is recognized as drive I and J in my computer since it already has a small partition because it's a clone of my old drive which is partitioned as C and D. But when I go to control panel, I don't see admin tools / disk management. I'm running the dread ME.

 

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yeah it seems that you version of PM doesn't support such big drives. for partitioning drive i use disk director(i don'tnow remember version), and when i bought 300Gb drive and tried to partition it, Disk Director didn't detect it, so i went to there site and found out that my version was a bit old, then i downloaded(made an upgrade) a newer one, after this all worked quite fine!

 

ah Jeez, now I got a different problem, I went ahead and downloaded Ubuntu and tried to install it, I found that it had it's own partition tool and so I set aside 22gig just to make sure I'd have enough, then the install failed, so now I've lost 22 gig from my HD, when I go to my computer drive I is now smaller, but I can't find the partition I made. I should just give up I guess, I've been wasting too damn much time on this.
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