Formating a new SECOND drive in XP

[Technician]

I just purchased a new second hard drive for my system. I cannot recall the
procedure to format a second drive under XP Pro. I do not wish to use the
drive overlay software that came with the drive. Thank you for your time and
help.


T

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

Click start/run, type diskmgmt.msc and click ok. Then right click the new
drive and create a partition. Then you can format it from windows explorer.
This assumes you have installed the drive and its jumper correctly, then
booted the system.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Michael Stevens]

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I just purchased a new second hard drive for my system. I cannot
recall the procedure to format a second drive under XP Pro. I do not
wish to use the drive overlay software that came with the drive.
Thank you for your time and help.


T

See the option to format with disk management in the link below.
http://michaelstevenstech.com/format_XP.htm
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