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I have WinXP home edition. I did a low level format on an 80 MG SCSI, partioned it 50/50 and formated the first partition in NTSF and installed WinXP. It's working fine but I want to use the other half of the drive. During partitioning/formating I wasn't offered the option of formating the remaining half of the drive. WinXP doesn't see it in "My Computer. How do I format it and get WinXP to see it?

 

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April 3 3:14 AM (2 hours and 23 minutes and 4 seconds later)
         
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Right-Click "Start" and choose Explore

Right-Click My Computer and choose "Manage"

Under Storage you will see "Disk Management"

Right-Click the unused portion where you can choose "partition" and "format."

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April 3 12:42 PM (9 hours and 27 minutes and 25 seconds later)
         
Reply to D. Jones's Post: Dear Mr. Jones,

Thank you for your prompt reply. I've already tried that but what I'm looking for is a way to format the extended partition and turn it into a logical drive so the "My Computer" and "Windows Explorer" recognizes it and so that I can use it. When I right click it in "Disk Management" it doesn't bring up any formatting options (I'd send you a screenshot but I don't see anyway of doing it here). I tried repartitioning the remaining partition to see if that would jog something, but to no avail. Any ideas?

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April 3 2:07 PM (1 hour and 25 minutes and 42 seconds later)
         
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So an area does though show in Disk mgmt that is different than the main partition?

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April 3 9:13 PM (7 hours and 6 minutes and 7 seconds later)
         
Reply to D. Jones's Post: Yes. Disk Mngmnt shows Disk 0 with two panels. The first panel has the usual diagonal lines and says:
(C:)
34.18 GB NTSF
Healthy (System)

Right clicking it calls a drop down menu with:
Open
Explore
Mark Partition as active (grayed out)
Change drive letters and path
Format (grayed out)
Delete Partition...
Properties
Help


The adjacent panel to the right does not have the diagonal lines (unless one left clicks in which event the diagonals switch from the left to the right panel)and says:
34.18 GB
Unallocated

Right clicking it calls a drop down down menu:
New partition
Properties
Help*

As I said, I tried a new partition to see if I could shake something loose but was unsuccessful.

Thanks.

*The help file is mute on my problem.

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April 3 9:24 PM (10 minutes and 4 seconds later)
         
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You must use "new partition" first. do that and then what choices do you have when you right-click on the newly-partitioned area?
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April 3 9:51 PM (27 minutes and 44 seconds later)
         
Reply to D. Jones's Post: O.K. Looks as though it's working - thanks. I'm formatting it to NTSF as I type. More shortly.
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April 3 10:46 PM (54 minutes and 40 seconds later)
         
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In the future, consider just choosing the whole drive for the OS to install on. Also, I very highly recommend using ghost to image the hard drive after you have made it perfect. It can boot up by CD outside of the operating system and it takes a picture of the hard drive (all partitions) so if you have a failure of any type you can just put the image back onto the hard drive (or the replacement if the HD failed). Good Luck.
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