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Formating HDs in DOS or Windows.

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Finnkc

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I have a little 20gb drive and I just picked up an almost new 40gb W.D. harddrive from a buddy. I plugged it in works fine.

I tired to format it in Windows 2000k 1st but I kept getting errors (windows was unable to format the drive). So I checked the drive and it had some files left over from the Win 2k OS that was installed on it before. So I deleted them and then tried again. Still didn't work.

So I tried it in DOS and it got to 99% and then prompted "Drive too big for FAT32".

What's the deal here? How should I go about formatting this little SOB?
 
Well, it shouldn't matter that there were files already present when you went to format the drive in Win 2K. The format should've completed anyway. The fact that it failed could mean there are bad sectors on the disk, corruption in the mbr, or somesuch thing. I'd run scandisk/chkdisk on it IIWY.
 
Win2k/xp have a 32 gig limit for creating a fat32 partition. If you fdisk and format it with win98/me your could then put it back in the win2k system, and it would see the whole drive.
 
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