Hard drive

[Richard]

My son bought a 180 gig Western Digital hard drive. After
installing it, and partitioning it to 6-30 gig partitions
using FDISK and formatting each of the paritions
(partitions C-H), CMOS/Bios recognized the 180 gigs,
Windows 2000 Prof gave 'unpartitioned drive' for partition
H and would not let us use it, nor would Windows 2000 Prof
let us format it.

Any hints as to what the problem is and how to fix it?? Or
is there any work around for this?


Thanks,
Richard

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Why bother with fdisk? Use Win2000 for all partitioning
and formatting activities!

 

[Guest]

Defrag does not work correctly, at least for me, on
anything greater than 32gig.

Richard

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I'm a little puzzled as to how defragging relates to your
initial topic of creating and recognising the various
partitions on your new hard disk. Anyway, if you don't
like the native Win2000 defragger then you can
always use a third-party product such as DiskKeeper
from Executive Software.

 

[Bob T]

-----Original Message-----
I'm a little puzzled as to how defragging relates to your
initial topic of creating and recognising the various
partitions on your new hard disk. Anyway, if you don't
like the native Win2000 defragger then you can
always use a third-party product such as DiskKeeper
from Executive Software.

Be sure too, if you are dead-set on using FDISK, & I
actually like it, make certain you get the new version of
FDISK that MS just came out with. It handles large HDDs.
The old one didn't.

Bob

 

[Guest]

Bob:

Where can I get a current version of FDISK?

Richard