Question about partioned drives.

Long story short, I couldn't get my computer parts together to make my shit run properly so I ended up taking it into have a tech work on it at one of my jobs.

I have a 100GB hard drive so he partioned it into two 50GB hard drives.

Ok drive one [C:] registers fine.

However drive two [D:] shows as blank in my computer, no information is available on it. When I double click it, ask me to format.

Ok, so I went ahead and said 'OK' format it using a FAT file system. So it took 30 minutes and at the end a error poped up saying "could not complete format".

Ok, so my other two choices on file system setups are:

1. NTFS
2. FAT32

Do I need to select one of these to make my shit work correctly? Or do I need to reformat and put my drive back as one total entity?

Thanks.

Knowing your OS and what brand/model hard drive you're using would help...

Please read this. (http://www.tribalwar.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=82306)

day-ta, day-ta, day-ta, day-ta

:clap:

:p

http://www.tribalwar.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=181814

Oh I haven't forgotten.

He brought it here, and that shows at least a modicum of intelligence, so I'll make an attempt...

This time. :p

Windows 2000.

Western Digital 100GB Hard Drive (2mb Buffer)

Great. If you have the option to format NTFS, do it. You don't want anything to do with FAT(16), and FAT32 should be a last resort.

Take it from there.

Thanks Data, setting up as a NTFS did the trick. Kudos.

:bandit:

To my understanding, FAT (FAT16) only supports HD's of up to 2 GB.

So you have to go with either FAT32 or NTFS. I'd recommend NTFS if you're using win2k/XP. Otherwise, if you're using win98, FAT32 should be fine.

NTFS did it in a snap, as said above, thanks for the insight.

As for my other threads, was my first time putting a computer together, Im still learning alot of things.

Everyone was a hardware/software noob at one point.

So eat me :p

Originally posted by Vermillion1
So eat me :p

what flavour you be?

craptastic