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paritioning 2nd hard drive
Name: true_atlantis Date: December 3, 2003 at 18:04:14 Pacific OS: mandrake 9.1/ win xp CPU/Ram: pentium 4 2.0 ghz 512 mb
Comment:
how do i format and partition my 2nd hard drive? if i try to format it in windows it says that it cant complete the format, if i try in dos, it says that it cant format a drive that big
Name: Jon Date: December 3, 2003 at 23:15:45 Pacific
Reply:
Partition Magic 8.0 by Powerquest. It costs a few bucks and is worth several times the price. Works like a charm and you can always undo what you just did. NTFS or FAT32 - back and forth, whatever you want. I've got two drives and a total of six partitions. But, I might change my mind and go back to two partitions tomorrow. No problem. I can do it in a few minutes.
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Response Number 2
Name: trvlr Date: December 4, 2003 at 06:35:22 Pacific
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Using Disk Admin tools...
You need to configure (partition) it first...
Also if partition is over 32Gig then W2K cannot create/format over 32Gig. Thus you use a '98 boot-disk (Fdisk/format utils) to do it; or an add-in util (PM/SC etc.).
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Response Number 3
Name: James Reynolds Date: December 6, 2003 at 09:10:32 Pacific
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You didn't say whether you were trying to format it using the FAT32 file system or NTFS.
I think 32GB is the limit for the FAT32 file system. However NTFS limit is about 2 TB.
Let me know how you get on.
James
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Response Number 4
Name: trvlr Date: December 6, 2003 at 11:00:52 Pacific
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W2K cannot create a partition over 32Gig but, as far as I know, it has no problems in formating one. '98 Fdisk would be one way to create one over 32Gig; similarly PM/SC etc.
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