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I've been trying to install my new maxtor 40 gig on my system thats running win2k. My current hard drive is formated in NTSF, and being win2k, there are no start up disks so I don't know to run fdisk, and how to format the drive. I'd really appreciate a step by step procedure to installing this drive. Thanks for the help.

I've never used a ntsf partition but untill another has a solution what I'd do is simply disconnect your main hd and connect the new one as master. Then fdisk and format using a start up disk of course. That would work anyway. And then do whatever it is you were going to do.

If you're not familar how to fdisk and format then use the included install disk or go to the makers web page and download it. If you download it then follow their directions to extract it to a floppy. Most have an install disk that will easily fdisk, format and transfer all files from one hd to another. You start up using a windows start up disk then at the a prompt take out the floppy and put in the install floppy. Hit enter, then follow the easy directions.

bentwookie450

Connect your new HDD to your system and start Win2000.
Go to CONTROL PANEL / ADMINISTRATIVE TOOLS / COMPUTER MANAGEMENT
Go to STORAGE / DISK MANAGEMENT
You should see DISK1, your current HDD with its partitions and probably DISK2 with "40GB Unallocated" (in case the new Maxtor is your second HDD and then your removable drives or optical drives.

Right click the DISK with "40GB Unallocated" and select "Create Partitions". This will start a wizard to guide you through the creation. You can select between Primary or Extended Partition with Logical drives. You can select either way cause it won't mess up your driveletters as it could in Win9x, you'll be able to select a driveletter for the partition(s) later in the wizard.
You can also select what filesystem to use, FAT, FAT32 or NTFS where I would suggest NTFS on a Win2k only system. The wizard pretty much explains itself but feel free to ask when you need further assistance.

This is when you just want to add the HDD as additional storage. It takes some more work when you want to make it your new bootdrive.

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Haha, its fine Doc, thanks for the help, im about to go tackle this little project, and Ill post the results back when I finish. Thanks wish me luck.

Good luck

well i tried to get all the things in order, but am having a few probs. My main concern is that I created a logical drive partition in my extended dos partition and I want to delete both. I want to get the hard drive back to stock because its only recognizing my 40 gig as having 32 gigs of space so Im thinking there might be a hardware problem if that makes sense. So what i want to do now is delete all paritions and take it back to the store i bought it from and see why a 40 gig is only recognized as a 32 gig. My last question is there a way that I could have lost 8 gigs in the parititioning process? Thanks

It sounds like you did soemthing wrong... Were you trying to split the drive or just make one partition of 40 gigs... I bet you partitioned wrong and there's 8 megs lost... Or its possible you have a older mobo that won't recognize 40 gigs...

Keep in mind that when you partition a 40 Gb drive, you only actually get around 37 Gb. The rest goes to the volume table of contents.

Well, I end up having a logical partition in the extended dos partition which is about 15mb. I cannot delete that extra partition and the other partition only has 31 gigs. In the first place, I just wanted to have a single partition of 40 gigs. Now Im wondering how to get rid of the 15mb partition and find the other 9 gigs of the harddrive.

All right.
Thanks

You should be able to delete that partition using DISK MANAGEMENT. It's a much more powerful tool compared to FDISK for DOS.

Right click on the 15MB logical drive and select DELETE LOGICAL DRIVE, next delete the extended partition the same way. You should be able to delete ANY partition on the new 40GB drive.
Then you can start from scratch with an empty 40GB drive.

Hi, Well I got to delete the extended dos partition and the logical partition that I had originally made with fdisk. I followed the directions of how to set up the harddrive with win2k and I formatted the harddrive into a NTFS format now. Everything works fine with the harddrive now. However, I am still wondering why the computer reads the harddrive as only around 33000mb or around 31 gigs. I looked at the harddrive in the computer's BIOS, and the bios reads the entire harddrive as only around 31 gigs. When I used the disk management in win2k, it only read it as a total of 31 gigs and now I have only 31 gigs on a 40 gig Maxtor that I bought. Does anyone know where the other 8 gigs went? Is it possible that this is a defective harddrive, or a harddrive with a wrong sticker?

Thanks again