Re: Why would "Create Partition" under Disk Management be greyed out?

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I didn't see any such option as "Initialize". Maybe this is an
Win XP option. As I wrote, I am running W2K. I guess my problem
has to do something with setting a permission somewhere.

Anyway, I found on my Win XP CD a utility called Diskpart.exe.
I could use it to create a partition on the drive and then proceed
with W2K's Disk Management to format that partition.

David

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> "David F" <David-White@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > Running W2K+SP4.
> > Logged on as admin.
> >
> > I plugged in a new disk as the second HD.
> > When running Computer Management->Storage and select
> > Disk Management, I see on the graph disk 1 recognizing the
> > new drive with the proper size. But when I right click in the
> > disk 1 area, the "Create Partition" is greyed out. So I can't
> > proceed with putting the drive into use.
> >
> > Any idea? Is there any specific policy I need to set to allow
> > it? (albeit that in the past I could partition a new drive with
> > capacity = 300GB).
> >
> > Thanks,
> > David
>
> You may have to initialise the disk before creating partitions.
> Right-click the disk in the left margin, then select "Initialise".
>
>


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