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Windows 2000 Pro Setup problem

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by abraxas21 1 view

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Twice now, I have attempted to repartition and reformat 40 GB hard drives in Pentium III/1 Ghz systems using the Setup CD supplied by the Vendor (Micron and Gateway). Each time I attempt to format after I've deleted and re-created the partition, I only get the option to format the partition using the NTFS file system...no option for FAT 32. How do I get it to give me both options?

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by ted laun

Is it possible that that 40GB harddrive is really 2 disk that are mirrored or spanned?

by abraxas21

When I accept the default disk size during format,40 GB, the OS defaults to NTFS. I changed the partition size to 32 gb and now I get both FAT 32 and NTFS options. So I make a 32gb FAT32 partition (C:) and an 8 gb partition (D:)

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