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Need advice on setting up my 500Gb External USB HD for a W2000 box.
The Buffalo software will format the whole 500 to Fat32 Ok and it says 'Convert' will make it into an NTFS drive. My preference is to make part of it, say 100GB, NTFS, another partition maybe 80Gb Fat32 and leave the rest for whatever. The Buffalo sw will create the partitions but won't name them correctly. Drive letters A, C, D, & E: are assigned by the base machine. Then:Windows 2000 assigned H:=80Gb and I:=465GB for the external HD. Any files written to H: also appear again in I: I don't want to spend any time using this backup w/o straightening out the storage system first. Are there equivalent programs to Fdisk and Format in DOS that will make partitions on this large drive? The online docs for Buffalo offer no help. The command line W2000 Repair Console will not recognise anything but the first HD (which contains C: and E  .Suggestions? |
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Does Disk Management recognise the external?
If so partition / format it there <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:(E-Mail Removed)... > Need advice on setting up my 500Gb External USB HD for a W2000 box. > The Buffalo software will format the whole 500 to Fat32 Ok and it > says 'Convert' will make it into an NTFS drive. > My preference is to make part of it, say 100GB, NTFS, another > partition maybe 80Gb Fat32 and leave the rest for whatever. > The Buffalo sw will create the partitions but won't name them > correctly. Drive letters A, C, D, & E: are assigned by the base > machine. > Then:Windows 2000 assigned H:=80Gb and I:=465GB for the external HD. > > Any files written to H: also appear again in I: I don't want to > spend any time using this backup w/o straightening out the storage > system first. > > Are there equivalent programs to Fdisk and Format in DOS that will > make partitions on this large drive? > The online docs for Buffalo offer no help. > The command line W2000 Repair Console will not recognise anything > but the first HD (which contains C: and E .> Suggestions? > |
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