Win2k HD Format question

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I was installing Win2k on a new HD, 80gb, I formatted the HD and installed
the OS, when it re-booted it said no HD available ... I tried twice and
nothing ...... I "thought" this is an older system maybe it does not
recognize the large HD ... so I reformatted it to 40gb and installed the OS
.... still nothing ..... then the light bulb went off .... I checked the BIOS
and the bios was not recognizing the HD ..... so I looked and found the HD
pins were on slave .. I changed it too master and poof it worked ...

So my question is ...... can I put the Win2k CD in and format the other half
of the HD? and make it usable or should I get something like Partition Magic
to do it?

Thanks
Steve
 
You can use the Disk Management snap-in to partition and format the rest of
your drive.
Start|Run|diskmgmt.msc


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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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:
|I was installing Win2k on a new HD, 80gb, I formatted the HD and installed
| the OS, when it re-booted it said no HD available ... I tried twice and
| nothing ...... I "thought" this is an older system maybe it does not
| recognize the large HD ... so I reformatted it to 40gb and installed the
OS
| ... still nothing ..... then the light bulb went off .... I checked the
BIOS
| and the bios was not recognizing the HD ..... so I looked and found the HD
| pins were on slave .. I changed it too master and poof it worked ...
|
| So my question is ...... can I put the Win2k CD in and format the other
half
| of the HD? and make it usable or should I get something like Partition
Magic
| to do it?
|
| Thanks
| Steve
|
|
 
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