Installing a second hard drive on Win XPHE

[Guest_imported]

This hard drive I will be using for storage only. What I'd like to know is, do I have to partition it. I only want 1 partition so is their a need?

Or is it neccessary, if it is could somebody tell me how to partition with Win XP.

Thanks
Don

 

[Snickle]

How big is the drive? Will it be FAT32 or NTFS?

Yes it does need to be partitioned, all hard drives need at least one partition.

If it were mine and over 32GB and I wanted FAT32 formatting, I'd install it, boot to a Win98 floppy, and fdisk and format it full size. Choose #5 to change drives on the fdisk menu.

WinXP can't create a partition larger than 32GB but seems able to work with otherwise.

 

[Snickle]

I forgot to put this in:

If you want to make it NTFS, check this:
In WinXP Help and Support, enter this in the Search box:

create a partition or logical drive

It gives 2 methods for doing it.

 

[Guest_imported]

Okay thanx.

I would be doing it as FAT32 so I will have a go at booting to a win98 floppy.

btw its an 80gig

 

[paparazi]

Windows XP is bootable so connect the drive as master, set the first boot device as CDrom in the bios, boot and it will spin XP up and load tools etc.
It will then ask you if you wish to format and what format type.
Also what partition size and numbers you require.
Choose to partition and format but don't allow it to setup windows.
Once done connect as required (slave on primary IDE) etc
Martin Please let members know if there advice has helped any.