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fantasy
10-18-00, 09:53 PM
Pls help me to partition W2K.
I tried to use FDISK but W2K dun have this command.
The prob is I have 10 GB of HDD and when install W2K I make into 7GB and 3Gb of partition but the 3GB I didn't format it so now I can't detect my 3GB drive .. http://www.speedguide.net/ubb/frown.gif
Thanks!
cyferick
10-19-00, 01:34 PM
Actually from what I heard you cant fdisk. You must format it from within the Win2k installation. Anyway I dunno man, Im still new to this Win2k stuff.

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~Cyferick II
John
10-19-00, 02:56 PM
What do you want to put in/use the 3gig partition for- and what file format is it currently in?
fantasy
10-22-00, 12:26 AM
curently now my 7 GB is NTFS and I want to make that 3 GB into FAT32.

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richardc
10-22-00, 01:09 AM
I am no expert on W2K but checkout the link below, scroll down to see ALL of Al's reply. http://www.pcnineoneone.com/dcforum/computer/7533.html#5 His remarks are from the Help file. It begins: To manage new disks

Open Disk Management.
Click Action, and then click Rescan Disks.
Notes
fantasy
10-23-00, 03:15 AM
Originally posted by richardc:
I am no expert on W2K but checkout the link below, scroll down to see ALL of Al's reply. http://www.pcnineoneone.com/dcforum/computer/7533.html#5 His remarks are from the Help file. It begins: To manage new disks

Open Disk Management.
Click Action, and then click Rescan Disks.
Notes



Thanks, it help a lot http://www.speedguide.net/ubb/biggrin.gif