How do I format a partition on hard drive from W2K?

[barlav]

I have a 60 gig hard drive. I just installed windows 2000 on a 40 gig partition of that drive. I want to setup and format the other 20 gig partition. How can I do this from within W2K? Or can't I? Thanks!

 

[Pariah]

If you want to use FAT32, you can't without a 3rd party utility. Find a win98 boot disk and do it in DOS.

 

[Quickfingerz]

what are you going to do with your partitions? Cause that's a really big partition. I normally have a small first partition because that's where my OS will be and there are times when I just feel like re-formatting, so the only thing i'll lose is my OS and no other files.

 

[Lore]

You know, I tried to format an 80gb drive on my Win2k system the other day for a friend but at the end of the format, it said "Voluem too large." I have no idea why it would say that; FAT32 should support up to 2 terrabytes!

 

[Pariah]

MS built in a 32GB drive limit for FAT32 in Win2k. You cannot format any IDE drive larger than that using Disk Manager.

 

[barlav]

I'm using NTFS. Perhaps I can't have more than one partition? Should I just use one full partition. I wanted to put aside 20 gig for mp3's,images and personal files separate from the OS and application files etc.. Thanks!

 

[Castellan]

You can create and format partitions from inside win2k be using the computer management console in the administrative tools folder. Choose disk management and make your changes.

 

[barlav]

Thanks Castellan! I knew there was a way. I'm formatting my 2nd partition as I type this message!

 

[Lore]

Pariah: Ah, thanks for the info. What do you have to use, then?

 

[Pariah]

The cheapest and easiest way is to get a win98 boot disk and do it in DOS.

 

[Castellan]

Huh? Nothing could be easier than computer management, and you can use NTFS rather than FAT32. I'm still trying to figure out the logic on that one. I know there were some benchmarks somewhere, Ij ust cant remember where they are. Unless you're dual booting, NTFS is the way to go for NT.