i got 2 hard disk. the first primary one with 4MB i installed win2000. the second slave one with 30MB i formated with NTFS but it only shows i got 2MB space only!!!! now i wanna reformat it to FAT32 but it is not possible! when i boot up using boot disk, the 30MB slave drive is not even there!!! how can i fix the problem and format it back with FAT32????? Second Question : can NTFS support drives with 30MB????? why it only shows 2MB after formating?

You'll need to FDISK the drive, delete the NTFS partition, re-partition the drive to FAT32, then re-format. Once a drive is converted to NTFS, you can't go back... NTFS supports hard drives up to 2TB (2,000GB)...

hi i got the same problam but when i do fdisk or start up disk he dont recagnize the ntfs partition onle the fat32 in fdisk it works but i dont now how to delete it's inpassble i u can gude me step by step how to delete ntfs . thanks yaniv

partition magic 6 will convert it back to fat32 also it'll probably sort out your other problem with it only showing up as a 2 meg...

to delete the ntfs partition your going to have to delete the non dos partition...

Jack: Boot to W2K; use Disk Admin to access HD-2; delete all partitions on HD-2; reconfigure drive as you wish it to be - FAT32. Are you sure you set the (single HD-2) partition initially to be 30Gig and not 2Gig??? *********** Yaniv... I think Dasiy has answered your query, but just in case... perhaps you can post back with your HD configuration - what is the file format for each drive/partition? If you have NTFS in the Extended partition then Fdisk will 'not' remove it... Fdisk will only remove NTFS from the Primary partition. Either you use the W2K set-up routine to delete an (Extended) NTFS partition; or boot to W2K, run Disk Amin., and delete the partition that way; or use delpart.ex - which will delete just about any partition. http://hercules.lss.ksu.edu/download/MSSTUFF/index.htm (parent site: http://hercules.lss.ksu.edu) - for delpart.exe It's 30K download and it's free. Use it carefully...

You can't use fdisk to delete an NTFS partition. Any computer tech knows that. You need a special utility of some kind. My favortie is DelPart.exe. You can find this program all over the internet and it will delete any type of partition you want.