How to format second drive in Win2k?

[Sayow 0]

Hello, I am new to Windows 2000 and have recently built a new system (AMD 1.4 TB, 512MB RAM, Geforce 3, and 2 61GB IBM ATA100 drives) I have installed windows 2000 on the first drive as an HTFS partition and installed SP2, now I am ready to format my second drive for use and cannot figure out how.

 

Any help is appreciated.

 

Thanks,

 

Rich

[Sayow 0]

Just to clarify...when i go into disk management, the second appears there, but it is listed as unallocated and its appears that i cannot access or format it. I assume i need to format it with an NTFS partition but cannot.

 

Thanks again

[Brian Frank 0]

Did you get any formatting software with the drive? You should be able to format it with the software. You may need a Win98 startup disk, but that's it. I'm not familiar with IBM drives, and have never had or used one.

Have you tried formatting it from within My Computer?

[Igor 0]

Right click on the drive in disk managment, alocate it and then format.

[CrazyKillerMan 0]

If you cannot see the un-formatted drive in windows 2000, goto www.bootdisk.com and create a 98/98SE/ME boot disk and use that to go into fdisk and create a primary dos partition. Then format using the same boot disk (be sure to reboot after partitioning) then go back into win2k.

Done.

[Toby 0]

Just do what Igor said, very easy.

 

/Toby