At 18:40 02/13/04, Peter Shkabara wrote:
>The easiest way is to go to Start/Run/ and type in "diskmgmt.msc"
>without the quotes. This will run Disk Manager that will allow
>you to partition and format the disk.


Like Peter says, Disk Manager is the way to create and format
disk drives from Win2K or WinXP.

Note however that I have read that Win2k will not allow you to
format a FAT32 partition greater than 32 GB in size.

This sounds odd to me, but it would explain why I couldn't get
Disk Manager to create and format 36 GB FAT32 partitions on
four 36 GB (SCSI) disk drives that I recently installed on one
of my computers.

I ended up using Partition Magic to do the 36 GB disks without
problems. (Note that Partition Manager was willing to do the
FAT32 formats with illegal cluster sizes. So watch our if anyone
uses Partition Manager to format partitions with Win2K.)

I usually boot to Win98 DOS using a Win98 Startup diskette to
run FDISK and FORMAT and create large FAT32 partitions on new
disk drives. (Note: I usually want my disk drives to be FAT32
so that I can access them from Win98 as well as from Win2k.
If you don't dual boot Win98 with Win2k or WinXP, this is not
a factor.)

Regards,
Bill

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