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Formatting Slave Drive on XP
Name: Tim Green Date: November 26, 2003 at 13:53:01 Pacific OS: XP Proffesional CPU/Ram: AMD Athlon XP 1600+ and 5
Comment:
I have physically installed my 40Gb slave hard drive (set jumpers, connected IDE cable etc). I run XP pro. from my master hard drive and go to MY COMPUTER so that I can format the slave drive...
Here is my problem On CMOS the slave drive is shown up as have 40GB, when I go to format the slave drive under 'Capacity:' it says only 1.99Gb can somebody explain please.
Name: Clark Date: November 26, 2003 at 17:53:16 Pacific
Reply:
The hard drive has a primary partition of 2GB. Go to Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Disk Management and format from there. You should then get the entire drive capacity (38.8GB or near that).
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