Adding a New 2nd Hard Drive

[Ronald Hahm]

I have installed an empty 2nd Hard Drive (SCSI) in a Windows 2000
machine. But for some reason I have not been able to get the hard
drive partitioned from within Windows 2000 (I know in NT 4.0 you could
do this.) The only way I have been able to get the drive partitioned
is using a MSDOS 6.2 boot disk and use fdisk. But that limits me to
just a 2 GB partition on a 9 GB drive. Is Partition Magin my only
alternative or is there a no cost solution?

 

[Alias]

Download the FREE formatting/partitioning software from the manufacturer of
the hard disk's web site, put it on a floppy, then boot from the floppy and
follow the instructions.

Alias

 

[Donald Newcomb]

You should be able to boot from CD and go into the "recovery console". This
will give you access to the "Diskpart" program which will allow you to
partition and format that drive any way you want. (Provided that Bill
approves.) You can assign drive letters to the partitions in the disk
management tool in the system "Control Panel". There may be an easier way,
but this should work.

 

[DL]

Format using Disk Management, within Win2K.
This assumes the hd has been connected correctly and it is identified in the
bios.

 

[William P.N. Smith]

I have installed an empty 2nd Hard Drive (SCSI) in a Windows 2000
machine. But for some reason I have not been able to get the hard
drive partitioned from within Windows 2000

Assuming your SCSI drivers loaded properly (check the Device Manager),
then:

<right-click on My Computer>
<select Manage>
<under Storage pick Disk Management>
<right-click on the unpartitioned space>
<proceed from there>