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by bfeltus Sep 18, 2002 last reply Sep 19, 2002

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I have a windows 2000 pro workstation with a 10gb hard drive. Noticed that drive c has 2gb of hard disk space. This workstation shows an unformatted drive D. When I tried to access drive D through explorer, I was prompted to format the drive, I answered yes. Received error that windows was unable to format the drive. How do I get this drive formatted or add to drive C. I also have programs and data on drive C that I need to keep.

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by lamvidao Sep 18, 2002

You could use ghost from Norton to image your C:/ drive to another harddrive before attemping set up w2k again. Then you will ghost back to this 10 gig harddrive.

It would not be a good idea to have only 2 gig for Windows 2000 but if you want to format D:/ drive please insert w2k disk and reboot your PC. It will run some w2k set up steps until it asks which drive you want to format then you choose D:/ then exit. Do not proceed to set up.

by bfeltus Sep 19, 2002

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by tomf Sep 18, 2002

Goto Control Panel->Administrative Tools->Computer Management

Then goto Disk Management, look for the D:.

Is it on the same disk as the C: ?

I have a feeling it is not. Your C: is probably on Disk 0 (the first physical disk) and Drive D ison the second physical disk. What you should do is format the D: and move your pagefile (Virtual memory to this drive) This greatly increases performance.

If it is on a different disk there is no way to "add it" to the C:. Unless you use some sort of 3rd party tool I'm not aware of.

IF it IS on the same disk... like the other response said, Ghost your drive (back it up) reformat the physical disk and partition it as one big drive. Then restore your data.

by bfeltus Sep 19, 2002

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by ann777 Sep 18, 2002

Are you certain that you have a single 10 GB drive? If yes, and your C: drive is 2 GB total, then you should have space left to format just fine.

Do you have any other drives? Like maybe a D: drive that is a cd-rom. If yes, you might try aformat e:

You might also have need of a bios upgrade on this computer. Or on the hdd. Or both. The older computers and drives may have problems with Win2000 without bios upgrades on the drive controller (usually builtin the drive itself nowdays) and on the system board. Check with the manufacturer of your system and drive.