bahhhhhh... Why can XP see my second hard drive.

[lotust]

I can see it in the Device manager. But not in my computer drives cdrom's ect..

How do I format the darn thing? Is there a utility on the XP cd that i dont see?

 

[saltedeggman]

go get a bootup disk and boot it from A drive and then just type format drive's name: ...

or you can get a copy or partition maigic to do that for you

 

[sohcrates]

there's a disk manager right in XP that will let you format the hard drive from within windows

 

[lotust]

<< there's a disk manager right in XP that will let you format the hard drive from within windows >>



yeah where? LOL

 

[bozo1]

Right-clip "My Computer", choose Manage. When that applet comes up, choose "Disk Management". From there, you can see your 2nd drive. Right click on it, partition and format from there.

 

[Ausm]

Sounds like the drive was not psrtitioned properly


Ausm

 

[lotust]

I love you bozo 😀


there it is. Lol .. so many new options in XP boggles my brain to remember them all.



thanks alot,
Shawn

 

[JoeDaddy]

<< so many new options in XP boggles >>



It was in Windows 2000 as well.

 

[bacillus]

<< I love you bozo >>


please, not on a public forum! 😀

 

[MadRat]

Use the disk manager. Format the drive to FAT32 if you want size, or NTFS if you want speed.

Edit: Oops, didn't read the rest of the posts. 😛

 

[Whitedog]

<<go get a bootup disk and boot it from A drive and then just type format drive's name: ...

or you can get a copy or partition maigic to do that for you>>

Hehe.

ehehehe

hehehehehehehe 😀

 

[Whitedog]

<<Use the disk manager. Format the drive to FAT32 if you want size, or NTFS if you want speed>>

I really wish you could explain that one...

FAT32 for Size?? R U saying you can create a larger partition with FAT32?
NTFS for Speed?? R U Saying NTFS partitions are faster than FAT32??

Oooook.

 

[MadRat]

NTFS performs faster than FAT32 partitions when doing anything but a search from EXPLORER. That has everything to do with the way NTFS searches for a file within EXPLORER, not because NTFS is less efficient. The organization is plain and simple a more efficient lay out. The secret to this efficiency lay in the huge index of files that is pre-sorted upon creation of the partition. The index of an NTFS partition is the same size before and after files fill up the partition. The FAT32 partition's index is smaller than a NTFS partition's index because the latter stores information on security, encryption, etc. The FAT32 partition uses an indexing system that grows as the drive fills, and therefore is less organized. You get a somewhat larger capacity because the index is smaller than the one used by NTFS. Whitedog, what don't you understand about this?

 

[lotust]

lol ok guys thanks.

thanks again 🙂