How to format second drive in Win2k?
Hello, I am new to Windows 2000 and have recently built a new system (AMD 1. 4 TB, 512MB RAM, Geforce 3, and 2 61GB IBM ATA100 drives) I have installed windows 2000 on the first drive as an HTFS partition and installed SP2, now I am ready to format my second drive for use and cannot figure out how.
Hello, I am new to Windows 2000 and have recently built a new system (AMD 1.4 TB, 512MB RAM, Geforce 3, and 2 61GB IBM ATA100 drives) I have installed windows 2000 on the first drive as an HTFS partition and installed SP2, now I am ready to format my second drive for use and cannot figure out how.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Rich
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Rich
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Did you get any formatting software with the drive? You should be able to format it with the software. You may need a Win98 startup disk, but that's it. I'm not familiar with IBM drives, and have never had or used one.
Have you tried formatting it from within My Computer?
Have you tried formatting it from within My Computer?
If you cannot see the un-formatted drive in windows 2000, goto www.bootdisk.com and create a 98/98SE/ME boot disk and use that to go into fdisk and create a primary dos partition. Then format using the same boot disk (be sure to reboot after partitioning) then go back into win2k.
Done.
Done.
