Re: Installing a second hard drive with WinXP Home SP2

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FDisk works for XP fine. It allows you to create the partitions as desired quickly and efficiently.

Mnordby wrote:
The MS Knowledge Base papers I've read on FDISK seem to say it's for Win98 or ME only. Also, that reference you left does not specifically say you can use FDISK with XP. 

I think I'll just use Partition Magic.

Thanx

"GreenieLeBrun" wrote:


Mnordby wrote:

I have an Ultra ATA 133 system running WinXP home SP2.
I'd like to install a second hard drive to my system, using FAT 32.
I know how to physically install the drive, and how to enable the BIOS to
find it.
How do I get XP to create one partition on this drive and format it?
I'm planning to get a rather large drive, probably 250GB.  I've read over
some of the WinXP Knowledge Base articles on this, and they seem to indicate
that there's a 32GB limit for FAT 32 partitions.  Is this really true?


Although XP can handle FAT32 partitions larger than 32Gb the builtin
disk management facility will only create FAT32 partions up to 32Gb.

If you want a larger partition get a Win98SE boot disk that has the
FDISK and FORMAT utilities on it (this can be obtained from
http://www.bootdisk.com). Boot your machine with this disk, then fdisk
the drive to create the required partitions/logical drives, and then
format the logical drive/drives.

You may like to look at:-
http://tools.supportforyourpc.com/get_article.asp?aid=1035



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