Adding new Harddrive to WIN2000 Pro???

[Littleberry]

I connected a brand new 120 gig harddrive
to my windows 2000 pro system as a master
single on the secondary dma. I go to the
popup Start button and go to

Settings/Control Panel/Administrative Tools/
Computer Management/Storage/Disk Managment,

and,
it first wants to use a wizard to "write signature"
and I cancel that (I don't know what that is but
I think I don't want it).

Then I get the window with 3 subparts. The leftmost
part is where "Disk Managment" is highlighted,
the top right most part shows only my C: drive,
and the rigth bottom part shows Disk 0 as being
my C: drive and then Disk 1 as being "110 gig
unallocated", with a red minus sign over
the icon on its left. I try "rescan" and nothing
changes. I right click Disk 1, but it only offers
me "write signature"|properties|Help.

I do not see anywhere that it will let me create
a single whole drive partition (NTFS) nor let
me format the new drive. What am I missing?

I know I can put it in as my master primary,
then boot from my Win2K cd, and it will
create the partition and format it, but,
shouldn't I be able to get it partitoned
(one large single NTFS partition) and
formatted while running as administrator
under win2k? I just don't see any option
here.

I has this same problem a couple of months
ago, and I had to boot from the CD to get
it partitioned and formatted - please tell
me I don't have to do that again.

Littleberry

 

[Chris Knapp]

Writing the signature is required if you want Windows 2000 to be able to
access the drive in any capacity, including partitioning and formatting. Its
quite harmless actually.

 

[Littleberry]

Writing the signature is required if you want Windows 2000 to be able to
access the drive in any capacity, including partitioning and formatting. Its
quite harmless actually.

I went ahead and selected "write signature" and then "make dynamic"
(no other choice offered), and then it started formatting to NTFS
for an hour but then froze up at 89%. I see I mistyped my previous
post, in that the HD is really 160 gig, not 120 gig. My motherboard
is AMI 62-0101-006389-00101111-071595-440BX/GX-0AAMH301-H, supermicro
P2SBA, and I am afraid that I am not going to be able to use
this harddrive (over 137 gig).

I have searched these postings for help, but, I can't find
any solutions - I might have to stay under the 137 gig limit -
do you have any ideas?

Thanks,

Littleberry

 

[Littleberry]

What I had to do in addition to "writing signature"
was download service pack #3, and, even then,
it would only format to NTFS, but NOT FAT32.

Curious. But at least I now have 160 gigs for space.

I also had to install it onto a Hightpoint Rocket 133S
IDE card, and download the latest drivers. My bios
does not support anything over the 137 gig limit,
and it is so old that no upgrades are available.

Thanks,

Littleberry