Two Hard drives under windows2000pro.

Can I run two harddrives under windows 2000pro? I would like one to be a c:\ drive and the other say d:\drive.

 

Yes you can.

If your 1st drive is one drive as your primary, partition the second as extended and logical takes up the total room on the second drive. Then you will have C and D and cd will be E. If thats what you really want to do.

 

2 Drive.

Can I format the drive with windows2000 or do I have to use a boot disk? Can I format it using NTFS?

 

I would use a boot disk and run f-disk and format.com. I think you can then change it to NTFS using W2000.

However, you might be able to do it with 2000 tools. If I were you I would wait till one of the 2000 folks comes along. I'm sure they could tell you for sure.

 

If you have a working system /w 2000 on a drive, you can go into disk management and do exactly what you want with any drive space that isn't now taken up with your system drive (probably C.

Other than setting up the initial partition for running 2000, easier to set up and format other partitions while you are booted in W2K.

Bmoore1129 - a cautionary note. If you have a drive set up and formated FAT and later convert it to NTFS, you will be forced to use 512 byte blocks rather than the 4K blocks NTFS uses by choice. It will work but you will have lots more problems with the disk fragmenting.

 

Fdisk is a FAT/dos program. You can not use fdisk's commands to modify a NTFS drive.
This includes formatting the drive.
You must first delete all partitions then create a dos partition and make it active.
I suggest using a third party utility such as Partition Magic to modify a NTFS drive.

 

Thanks Newt...I knew that but it's good info for someone who doesn't. and if they doesn't, they do now

That's what I get for jumping in on a hardware question and it switches to a W2000 question. (slowly backing out of room)