How do I partition/format a new hard drive in Win2k?

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Nov 25th, 2002, 10:10 AM
seh

How do I partition/format a new hard drive in Win2k?

I have a new HD unpartitioned / unformatted, and I've connected it to IDE1 slave, so now I have 2 HDs. Jumpers are set up correctly, and the BIOS has recognised both drives fine. How do I go about partitioning and formatting the drive? My OS is Win2k. Basically what replaced the old fdisk?

Thanks.
Nov 25th, 2002, 10:16 AM
plenderj

Disk Administrator.

Start > Settings > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Disk Administrator
Nov 25th, 2002, 10:21 AM
seh

Doh, I won't even say how I did it...

Thanks, I'll know in future :o

Actually, I'm going to repartition/format just to see :D

P.S.

COME BACK FDISK, ALL IS FORGIVEN!!!!
Nov 26th, 2002, 07:52 PM
Jethro

Remember to be careful chosing which file format, DOS don't know about NTFS but it works better than Fat32 in Win2k....
Nov 27th, 2002, 05:35 AM
seh

Quote:

Originally posted by Jethro
Remember to be careful chosing which file format, DOS don't know about NTFS but it works better than Fat32 in Win2k....

Yeah I have been using NTFS for a while now. Although I'd normally let the Win2k CD do the partition/format task when doing a reinstall of the OS. I noticed in Admin Tools...Disk Management, that there is an option to 'Upgrade to Dynamic Disk'. I'm assuming this allows you to use the software based RAID? Is this advisable? I have two 40GB EIDE drives.

Also is it advisable to keep the default setting on a NTFS drive of 'Allow Indexing service' ?

Thanks.