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tombance   12-26-2002 at 09:32:33 PM

Ive recently bought a second hand comp with a 8gb HDD running win2000 but on a motherboard with a bios password (dont know what it is). The problem is that currently only 40% of the space is partitioned, so I thought I would make the other 60% into a drive and pretend that there are two disks. Well the locked bios is set to run IDE first, so i cannoy boot from a floppy. So I decided to boot from another mobo, make another partition and then format it, unfortunately I only have a win98SE bootable floppy so I would only be able to make it FAT32. My question is, if my bootable partition is NTFS and my 'E' drive is FAT32, will win2000 be able to write to these properly, or am I going to need to find a 2000 bootable floppy so that I can format it with NTFS? One last point, when I do format this drive will I still need to type:

A:\format E: /s

or can I miss out the /s sonce I wont be booting from it?

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jheine   12-26-2002 at 11:51:58 PM
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You actually don't have to go though that trouble at all. There is an administrative tool in Win2k called Computer Management. Boot into Windows on the origional system, sign in to an administrative account (if there are more than one account active), go into settings, control panel, Administrative Tools, Computer Management, it will open a console window. You will see an icon for storage on the left side. If it is not expanded, expand it and click on Disk Management. This will show the stats of the drive including partion(s). Right click on the bar representation of your drive in the area that is labeled as unpartitioned. It should give you an option to partition the remaining space. After a reboot, you can take the same steps to format the drive.

If you already partitioned it on the other system, don't worry. Win2K will read FAT32 Partitions without a problem. It just won't have the security features of NTFS.

Jarrett

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tombance   12-26-2002 at 11:57:01 PM
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Brilliant, thankyou v.much. That will save me a lot of hassle, and I means that I dont have to try to boot this Old HDD from my current computer (the one that has Win2k im hoping to sell) which I wasnt looking forward to.

Thanks again :D

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lhgpoobaa   12-27-2002 at 11:04:49 AM
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yessss. Computer management tools are your friend, specially the drive management. so easy to use, though reboots are reccomended after rearrangment of all your drives/partitions.

<b><font color=purple>[Rik_]</font color=purple> I wonder how many people have made their own phasechange system?
<font color=blue>[LHGPooBaa]</font color=blue> I get phasechange whenever i eat a hot chillie :lol: </b>

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tombance   12-27-2002 at 01:58:20 PM
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Shame Im still on 98SE :( looks like an upgrade to 2k pro or xp might be in order.

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