Re: XP Home: How to format HD?
From: Patrick Riley (p_riley_at_pipeline.com)
Date: 05/27/04
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Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 06:08:10 GMT
Aha! Found the solution and I'm not even a MVP <g>:
No need for a third-party partition-manager, unfortunately for 7Tools
whose demo version gave me the idea.
My Computer | Control Panel | Administrative Tools | Computer
Management | Disk Management
Right click on the appropriate partition and "Change Drive Letter and
Paths..." On the screen change to the desired letter and....
I just saved myself $30 (or $80).
Now to read up on formatting courtesy of Bill...
-- Patrick Riley (with apologies to those who hate top posting.) Patrick Riley <p_riley@pipeline.com> wrote: >"Norm" <nospam@hellothere.com> wrote: > >>If your disk 1 is a single 40 gig NTFS partition why not just leave it >>alone. Without some 3rd party partitioning tools you cannot change the size >>of the C partition. You can delete the small partitions and create what you >>want on disk 2 in XP by going into Disk Management. > >I fully intend to eliminate the partitions on Disk 2 and convert it to >one NTFS type but this won't solve the immediate problem. As I >understand the sequence, Windows (and I believe it was true for DOS >too) assigns the next drive letters after Disk 1 to the CDROM (and >probably other peculiar devices) and only after they've all been >assigned does it go to disk 2. Unless I break up Disk 1 (i.e. add >another partition) the CDROM will always be "D:", an untenable >situation. > >Or, maybe not really untenable. If I couldn't change D to be a HD >drive there are two other ways: 1) does the "Assgn" command still >work? If so I could Assgn D to C. or 2) I could recompile and relink >my legacy DOS programs that have the file name hard coded as >D:xxxx.xxx but, oh la la, it's touch and go as to whether the >programs will run let alone a 1992 compiler and linkage editor. The >programs ran under NT and 2K so I'm hoping... > >I think the suggestion of a third party partition-er, expensive though >it may be, is probably the best. > >>"Patrick Riley" <p_riley@pipeline.com> wrote in message >>news:e478b09p1l4s09jg95m8g493o7fs00l4f9@4ax.com... >>> My machine: >>> >>> Disk 1: 40 gig >>> >>> C: NTFS 40 gig Operating system, files etc about 5 gig, the rest >>> unused >>> >>> D: CDROM Drive >>> >>> Disk 2: 40 gig >>> >>> E: Fat16 about 2 gig >>> >>> F: Fat 16 about 2 gig >>> >>> G: Fat 16 about 2 gig >>> >>> H: Fat 16 about 2 gig >>> >>> I: NTFS about 32 gig >>> >>> All of disk 2 came from a prior machine and has remnants of DOS 5.2, >>> Win 3.1, Win NT, and Win 2K. In fact loading the latter (and its >>> collapse) was the final straw that made me go out and buy a new >>> machine with XP on it. Unfortunately the guy formatted the entirety of >>> Disk 1 as C:. I need to have at least a couple of gig (file type >>> indifferent) as D: >>> >>> I want to end up with: >>> >>> Disk 1: 40 gig >>> >>> C: NTFS 35 gig -- Operating system, files etc. everything it has at >>> present >>> >>> D: any file system 5 gig >>> >>> E: CDROM >>> >>> Disk 2: 40 gig NTFS >>> >>> F: 40 gig NTFS formatted and virginal. >>> >>> How do I go about this without disturbing the sensitivities of XP? I >>> most certainly don't want to re-load the OS. I can't even find a Help >>> entry for Format nor F-Disk but I heard rumors (voices <g>) that in >>> these more modern OS's the functions of F-disk could be done "on the >>> fly". >>> >>> TIA >>> >>> -- >>> Patrick Riley >>> >>
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