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Partitioning hard drives

1025 Views 8 Replies 7 Participants Last post by crjdriver, Apr 12, 2004

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Discussion Starter · Apr 7, 2004

I have an 80gb external harddrive. I used fdisk to format it but there didn't seem to be an option to not partition the drive so I did and now the drive says it is only 1.99gb in size. I'm guessing the rest is the other side of teh partition?? but I don't know how to get to that. Can I just reformat the drive? do I have to make a partition? and if so can I make it as large as I like? that way I can have as much of the drive as possible in one section, if that makes sense

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Discussion Starter · #4 · Apr 7, 2004

I want to use the drive on two seperate pcs one running windows me and the other xp
I'll go read that link and come back if I need too

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Discussion Starter · #7 · Apr 12, 2004

now I have that all sorted but windows keeps saying the drive needs formatting and then won't do it. yesterday I tried to copy some files to it anyway and they were transfered but when I then tried to open them I get the same message that the drive needs formatting but the formatter won't run.

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