Hard drive partitioning with Windows XP Pro

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Right click - My Computer, Manage, Disk Management.

You can format it there.


"Eric66" <Eric66@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I just installed a new Western Digital 80G hard drive. My goal was to
> partition it into two equal 40G partitions. I insertet my windows XP dics
> and created and formatted the first 40G partition. I then proceeded to
> load
> Windows on that first partition. The problem I am having is how do I
> access
> the other nonformatted 40G partition? It is not recognized in Windows
> explorer. If I insert the Windows disc again, as if I'm downloading
> another
> version of Windows, it only recognizes the formatted partition. I did
> format
> in NTFS if it makes any difference.
>
> I use the Western Digital 3.5" floppy utility and it gives me the option
> to
> partition and format. But it wants to erase the data on the entire 80G
> drive
> and start over. I want to be able to access only the unformatted 40G
> partition and format it. My BIOS recognizes all 80G. Any help would be
> great.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Eric