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Need help partitioning a second scsi drive under Win2k using NTFS

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Salvador

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Hi,

I have two scsi hdd's and I need to know the best way to format and partition the second drive under Windows 2000 Pro using NTFS. I want to use this second drive for storage.

I tried Fdisking and it just creates problems. My guess is that NTFS is the problem here. I tried formatting through the controller card BIOS and the drive is still unrecognizable.

BTW.. The system see's the drive, so the jumpers are set up properly. It's just not formatted properly.

TIA,

Sal
 
Right click on My Computer > Manage > Disk Management

If the Drive is installed properly you should see it there, probably as unassigned or something
Right Click on the 2nd drive and FORMAT
 
I've tried dealing with the drive in Disk Manager, but it won't let me touch the drive. It shows up in the bottom of the screen as an Unknown drive and has a little red caution symbol over it.

I can't see how it isn't installed properly. I have the ID set correctly and it isn't conflicting with anything. It's also terminated on the scsi chain. What's weird is that it shows up in Device Manager fine and if I click on properties, it says that the device is working properly. I just can't touch it to format it.

Any other ideas?

Thanks again.

Sal
 
Does it recognize is as having some kind of partition already?
Can you delete all the partitions and create a new one?
 
It just says unknown.. There is no partition, but I did try to format it with the Adaptec BIOS. Should I try to go into fdisk and see if there is anything to delete?

The problem that I'm having with fdisk is that every time I go to set up a partition, it changes the second drive to the c drive and then I can't format it. I'm thinking that this could be because I used NTFS?

Sal
 
Ok.. I went in and fdisked the drive. I set up a DOS partition and it changed the second drive to C again. For the heck of it, I tried to reboot and it did reboot into my main drive. I then went into Disk Manager and was able to delete the partition, then repartition and format with NTFS. The drive seems to be working fine now, but I'm wondering why Win2k is giving the D drive letter to my IDE cd rom?

My main scsi hard drive is C. My IDE cd rom is D and my 2nd scsi hard drive is E. Any ideas?

Windows also put a hidden folder that I cannot touch on my freshly partitioned drive. Is this because I formatted it through Win2k's Drive Manager?

Thanks again,

Sal
 
Just reassign the CD drive letter in Disk Manager to whatever you want.
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Thanks. I figured that out after playing around with it a bit. I didn't know that the Disk Manager would let me do something like that. 😉

I figured that I would delete the cd rom first to free up the D drive letter and then I assigned D to the second drive. I then gave the cd rom the E drive letter. I had no idea what it would do if I deleted the drive letter, so I figured that it was safer to delete the cd drom drive letter than a hard drive letter.

Thanks again..

Sal
 
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