Re: Hard drive

Hi, ITmad.

Have you found Win2K's Disk Management tool? At the Run prompt, enter: diskmgmt.msc

Using Disk Management, you can create partitions on that new HD, then assign a drive letter, then format each partition as either FAT or NTFS. (Win2K will not format partitions larger than 32 GB as FAT32, but the capacity is practically unlimited for NTFS.) Win2K "mixes and matches" FAT and NTFS drives seamlessly, as easily as it mixes floppies, CD/DVDs, etc.

Of course, you should be sure that your new HD is properly jumpered and cabled and, if necessary, enabled in your computer's BIOS.

If you tell us more about your system (make and model of your computer, or the motherboard if you built it yourself; make and model of HDs/controllers; Win2K version and SP level; etc.) we might have some more specific suggestions for you.

RC
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"ITmad" <ITmad.1n2ht3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:ITmad.1n2ht3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 

i have resently got a 80gb hard drive and when i plug it in it is not
seen as by existing hard drive is FAT32 and the new one is NTFS what
can i do?



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ITmad 

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