Damn 60GB won't format now in Win2k

[ODiN 0]

Ok, after thinking I got the drive all set up, Win2k gives the error: "VOLUME SIZE IS TOO BIG" just before competing the formatting process. Basically the drive is still rendered unformatted afterwards. Any help would be greatly appreciated! BTW, I'm running an ABIT VP6.

[HarU 0]

Have you checked to see if the vp6 could support drives that large? Im not familiar with that board, so i couldn't help you there. Also, are you trying to format it as a secondary drive while you are in windows? Or, are you doing this during the win2k install?

 

Another thing is....are you making that all one partition??? You should think about breaking up the drive into multiple partitions. for instance, this is how my 40 gig is set up:

 

C:\ 4 gigs (used for system only)

D:\ 11 gigs (used for applications and miscellaneous file storage)

E:\ 25 gigs (used for games and mp3's)

 

This will give you much better management over your storag space; plus, it will keep you organized. Also, this way, if you ever need to reinstall OS, and you want to format your drive, you can leave the D, and E drive alone and just format the C:\. You should think about doing this. So, during the install, make a 4-6 gig C: drive to install win2k on. Then, once you get into windows you can creat the other 2-3 partitions that you want and format those. This may help you get around your problem. Good luck

[Brian Frank 0]

Did the drive come with formatting tools? I know maxtor and western digital come with formatting floppies. Do you have partition magic? If you have pm, make the bootable disks and then format the drive that way.

What filesystem are you running NTFS or FAT32? I personally run FAT32, but Win2k can read both filesystems and should be able to format them. I know 98 has a problem running a hard drive that big, but still, Win2k isnt even the same base code.

Are the hdd jumpers set correctly?

[ODiN 0]

the VP6 is very popular, not to mention only 4 months old or so, so I doubt that it cannot support a drive of 60GB. I am trying to format the drive as a Secondary Master in Windows 2k, and would rather not partition the drive.

 

I do have Partition Magic, but I didn't think that it would help in this case. I've tried using the Maxtor Maxblast software and it doesn't really help since the BIOS already recognizes the full capacity. I've been running a FAT32 file system in Win2k, and attempted to format the new drive with the same. The jumpers are properly set.

[HarU 0]

Boot into dos and run fdisk...

 

see if it will format there.

[DosFreak 2]

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q184/0/06.ASP

[clutch 1]

Nice one, Dos. I did not know that. Yet another reason to avoid FAT32.

 

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Regards,

 

clutch