Error formatting drive

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When I rebooted into win2k, it claimed my second hard disk had failed. It
was trying to reinstall the driver it seems, because the error message said
error installing driver for hard disk. Weird, its been in use and working
before then.

Subsequently, the disk now is showing up as a logical disk of unknown
capacity, which cannot be formatted. I try formatting and it says error
formatting, or cannot be formatted. Is there anything I can do? I thought
trying to format it through win2k would have the same effect as formatting
it with fdisk, which I haven't had time to try yet - is that worth trying,
or does it really seem that the disk is dead? There was no important data on
it that I will miss so there are no problems on that front.

Thanks for any useful help.
 
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When I rebooted into win2k, it claimed my second hard disk had failed. It
was trying to reinstall the driver it seems, because the error message said
error installing driver for hard disk. Weird, its been in use and working
before then.

Subsequently, the disk now is showing up as a logical disk of unknown
capacity, which cannot be formatted. I try formatting and it says error
formatting, or cannot be formatted. Is there anything I can do? I thought
trying to format it through win2k would have the same effect as formatting
it with fdisk, which I haven't had time to try yet - is that worth trying,
or does it really seem that the disk is dead? There was no important data on
it that I will miss so there are no problems on that front.

Thanks for any useful help.
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Is the HD already partitioned?
Try these steps...
Start the windows 2k install (from CD). When you are at the point where is
asks you where do you want to put Win 2k arrow down to the 2nd HD and push
'c' for 'create partition' (if there's already a partition there delete it).
Make the partition the size that you want (it defaults to the maximum size)
when you push enter it will take you back to the previous screen. Your done!
Exit the Win 2k install and reboot normally (not from CD) and you should be
able to format the partition no problem now.
 
If it is like XP then try

start - control panel - administrative tools - computer management

then

under storage click disk management
At this point you can 'fdisk' the drive, format, etc...
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start - control panel - administrative tools - computer management
then

under storage click disk management
At this point you can 'fdisk' the drive, format, etc...
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Yes win2k is exactly like this - but that is exactly what I have been trying
to do. The drive had about 5 partitions which are now only showing up as
one. However I shall try the CD procedure like Alceryes suggested.
 
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