Formatting a 4.3GB Hard Drive

[Markoman01027]

I am running Windows 2000 and I want to add a 4.3 hard drive for storage. But I don't want to use FAT32 on the hard drive, but I want to use the file system that my current hard drive uses(NTFS). Without using FDISK and FORMAT with a bootable floopy or a bootable CD. How can I FORMAT and Partition using the Windows 2000 CD? I heard you enter the recovery console and use their partition and format utilities? Or make a partition and format it in WIN2K?

P.S- Would it make my system perform better if I moved the swap file from my C drive to the other hard drive? I could always format and fdisk with a bootable floopy, but I want to keep my file systems the same(I dont know for what reason)

The hard drive is TRIGEM, and I can't find their website. Anybody know who they got bought by?

Thanks guys!

[HAL9000]

Boot to Win2K like normal. Right click My Computer and select Manage. Select Disk Management and partition and format the drive there. A Trigem drive is one that came out of an e-Machine and as far as I can tell, it's a rebadged Samsung.

[Markoman01027]

Thanks for the help Hal,

I knew somehow you were able to do it in WIN2K but I wasn't sure. I thought you would have to actually boot up into the recovery console.

By any chance do you know any websites that offer a diagnostic utility for that drive?

How about the Swap File? Would it be better to move it into that drive?

Thanks!

[minsonngo]

You can actually use the Windows 2000 operating system already installed on the hard drive in your computer to format and partition the hard drive that you are going to add. Just install the hard drive and be sure that you have set the correct jumpers. Then boot up to Windows 2000 and go into control panel and look for the folder titled "Administrative Tools". Open this folder and double click on "Computer Management". Then you click on "Disk Management and go from there to partition and format the drive. Just play around with it and you will get it. Good Luck!

[HAL9000]

Originally posted by Markoman01027 Thanks for the help Hal, I knew somehow you were able to do it in WIN2K but I wasn't sure. I thought you would have to actually boot up into the recovery console. By any chance do you know any websites that offer a diagnostic utility for that drive? How about the Swap File? Would it be better to move it into that drive? Thanks!

If there is one, you could run one from Samsung. I never found Samsungs to be particularly fast, so I don't think I would bother transferring the swap to that drive.

[Markoman01027]

Thanks HAL and Minsonngo for the replies!

[Tuf]

I wouldn't a 4.3GB drive is likely to be ATA33 at best, which is probably slower than your other drive.

[Markoman01027]

Good point TUF. Might just save up my money for an ATA 100 40GB drive