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12-29-2004, 11:15 PM
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Try on another pc
I am adding a external hard drive to my pc and would like to know if I can format it on another pc with xp? My os is me. Thanks
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12-29-2004, 11:46 PM
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Barefoot on the Moon!
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Yes, however, if you are going to use the drive on a winME machine, the drive will need to be formatted as FAT32-- winME has no NTFS support.
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12-30-2004, 12:00 AM
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Thanks, Whats happening is I am trying to add an external hard drive but I can`t find it any where to format it. I have checked in the bios but it isn`t there. Could it be because it is connected through usb?
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12-30-2004, 01:46 AM
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You can do this within ME. Open a command prompt and run FDISK. Use option 5 to select the unpartitioned disk and create a primary DOS partition. You will then see it in My Computer and be able to right click on it and format it.
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12-30-2004, 02:24 AM
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When I do that it only gives me 4 options. And sorry about the double post, I was just trying to explain why I was asking to see if I could format a new hard drive from another pc.
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12-30-2004, 02:43 AM
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Shiro Usagi
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Wait...is imhowie the same person as h1024o?
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12-30-2004, 05:09 AM
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No, I signed my dad up to the forum and he ask me to do the posts for him.
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12-30-2004, 09:09 AM
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The only problem with doing it in XP is XP can only create 32gb or less FAT32 partitions. If this is acceptable, do it in Disk Management.
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12-30-2004, 12:03 PM
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When I opened a command promp to fdisk it only gave me 4 choices.
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