formatting XP related

Creamy Goodness

just trying to help a mate with a format of a secondary drive in windows xp home.

now as i was aware once you had your primary drive with xp installed on it you could format a secondary drive within xp.

but with the attached image of his "disk management" dialog box the disk is said to be unallocated.

anyone know what he should do?

KdjaCL

Format it and allocate it, make sure he formats it in the same way NTFS FAT as whatever his primary is.

kdjac

Creamy Goodness

how can he format inside xp home as it doesn't give him the option to when he right clicks the drive


*EDIT * sorry I forgot to add the attachment

KdjaCL

It should do (does on mine) get partition magic and it will do it outside of windows.

/edit seen pic
If he goes into My Compture and right clicks on it , it should give him the option.
kdjac

Creamy Goodness

he has the demo of partition magic will he be able to do it through that? or does he need the full version?


*EDIT* he also says he can't see in inside my computer.

EL WOG

i remember doing that the first time, and I found that the windows help was very good. step by step and easy to use?, can't remember how to do it know. but when i need to, i will be straight back to the help icon!

deckie27

On XP pro you have the option to import the disk but
This is a - feature of XP home that doesn't get much air play.

Dec

SickBoy

I would suggest you right click on the unallocated space and create a primary partition and then format it....

Creamy Goodness

SickBoy wrote:

I would suggest you right click on the unallocated space and create a primary partition and then format it....

you can't do that, i've after trying and he's after trying it too.

you can only do that if it comes up in the top half of that window

SickBoy

Cremo wrote:

you can't do that, i've after trying and he's after trying it too.

you can only do that if it comes up in the top half of that window

That's not right. They only show up in the top half when they have a drive letter associated with them. As it stands, the drive is not initialized meaning it's not formated. Before you can format it you must create a partition. So before it will show up in the top half you must do these steps...