Re: Formatting 2nd hard drive

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From: Alias (maskedandanonymous_at_aka.com)
Date: 05/21/04 

Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 19:18:49 +0200

"Tim Slattery" <Slattery_T@bls.gov> wrote in message
news:9qbsa0d4jehr31br1qp8drcn0ich1lqq58@4ax.com...
> "Newtechie" <newtechie@nospam.com> wrote:
>
> >Hi all -
> >
> >I'm getting a second hard in addition to the one I already have. It'll
be
> >160gb drive. The plans are to use this as a storage drive (slave). My
> >question is: how can I format the drive using ntfs without installing an
> >operating system?
>
> Easily. After installing the disk, go to Start|Programs|Administrative
> Tools|Computer Management, and get the disk manager program running.
> (I'm at work and my employer locks us out of that program, so I can't
> give detailed instructions from here). That program will allow you to
> create one or more partitions on your new drive, then format it. Then
> it will be ready for use.
>
> --
> Tim Slattery
> MS MVP(DTS)
> Slattery_T@bls.gov

Didn't know about that. Is that feature available in W2K or only in XP?

Alias

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