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    Apr 13, 2003, 11:02 PM
    Trying to format my hard drive
    I bought a new 40 gig maxtor hard drive and I partitioned it and installed win 2000 on one of the partitions. I want to format the the other partitions and was unable to do it in my computer and right clicking the drive and selecting format. I was unable to do it in dos as well... How do I do it?
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    Apr 15, 2003, 09:20 AM
    trying to format my hard drive
    Did you partition the whole drive? Did you greate logical partitions in the Extended DOS partition? Does the drive letter show up in My Computer? Do you get any errors messages when you try to format?
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    Apr 28, 2003, 11:28 AM
    trying to format my hard drive
    Right click the task bar go to properties click the advanced tab click the display administrative tools. You now have a new categories in the start menu. Click start and go to administrative tools and click computer management once this opens up undeneath storage click disk management from here you can format any free space and create partitions and such first you need to make the second partition and make sure its an extended not a primary and then a logical drive after that you can format it if you need help while you doing this you can message me Ill walk you through it.
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