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11-16-2003, 12:36 PM
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second partition won't format
Not sure if this a software problem or hardware problem.
Recently made a new build with 120gig WD hard drive. Made the first partition (C drive) to be 20gig and the rest to be the second partition. Win2k installed fine on the first partition. Now when I go to My Computer I see the C drive and the D drive, but when I double-click on the D drive windows says it needs to format it. So I let it start formatting but at the end it says somthing like "error windows could not complete format of the drive" So my questions are do I have a bad drive? is there any other way to format the hard drive? |
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11-16-2003, 01:46 PM
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are you formating the drive to ntfs or fat32 file system
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11-16-2003, 04:04 PM
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fat32
I tried formatting with the dos prompt and got the error that the partition size (100gig) was too big for fat32. Why couldn't windows have told me that  oh well...I'm just gonna repartition to 3 drives with 40 gigs each, using NTFS Last edited by kobalt58; 11-16-2003 at 04:21 PM. |
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11-17-2003, 02:21 AM
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good idear ntfs is a lot moor secure and stable
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