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I need some help with my XP Pro. I have a 20 gig hd in my system and I just bought a 40 gig for storage. I set the jumpers on the back of the new 40 so it's the slave and when I go into my bios I can see that both HD are there and in the order I want them, so I think I have that part done right. When I boot up into xp and go into the explorer I only see my 20 gig. The 40 dosent show up at all. I think I need to do an Fdisk, but don't know how with Xp. I downloaded a cool boot disk for xp and it lets you do an fdisk but only my 20 shows up on the list. :( How do I do the fdisk so win xp will see my 40 gig?
Did you go into Disk Administrator, partition and format it? It would be in Administrative Tools-->Computer Management in the Control Panel.
Originally posted by Jon
Did you go into Disk Administrator, partition and format it? It would be in Administrative Tools-->Computer Management in the Control Panel.
nope see, im so used to win 98 se that i didnt even know that potion was in xp. lol thx I'll go look.
Ok, I found it in there, but now what do I do?
Big Nuttz
07-20-02, 12:00 PM
Right click on the disk and select to make a new partion. Their is a little wizzard.
Originally posted by Big Nuttz
Right click on the disk and select to make a new partion. Their is a little wizzard.
ok, I just tried this and it won't let me select anything other than NTFS and I need FAT32. I'm not sure but won't making this storage disk NTFS not useable with my FAT 32 drive. And my FAT32 drive has the Winxp on it. Or can I make it NTFS and leave my other drive with Winxp as a FAT32. If I can I would rather have FAt 32 on both.
You can format it NTFS and it will work perfectly fine with your other drive. The only thing NTFS is not compatible with is WinME and below as it cannot read NTFS partitions that are on the same system.
NTFS is actually a much more stable and optimized file system for all NT-based OSes. Especially with larger drives.
Big Nuttz
07-20-02, 12:39 PM
If you want FAT32 use a win98 startup disk and run fdisk and format on the disk. Then if you want to convert it to NTFS later you can use the convert utility from a command line.
ok cool. so I can format it with NTFS and my FAT 32 will beable to read whats on the disk? The disk with the NTFS will be a storage disk and will have important Documents on it for work so i gotta be sure the FAT32 hd can read whats on the NTFS system. Also I dont know if this is improtant but when i installed XP I upgraded over win98 se.
Ok,I got it working now. :d. I could not understand some of the tech stuff you guys said to do so here is what I did. I told XP to reboot and when it was just about to go to the first screen that shows you what Vid card you got I unplugged the IDE cable from the Main Drive(20 gig with XP on it). The system told me that I need to use a boot disk so I put in my EZ OS install floppy I downloaded from here http://pchelplive.com/ It then loaded up and asked what IO wanna do and I told it to Fdisk. It finished that and I then Formatted it. When it was done that I plugged the IDE cable for the 20 gig back in the the HD and rebooted. It booted to Xp and I went to the computer management and assigned the proper drive letters for all my cd roms and HD's. I rebooted and now it all works great. thanks for all the help guys, even though I don't understand some of the Tech lingo around here it still helped me a great deal. :D
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