To reflect Scott Dattalo's (and others') sentiment, what does partitioning a HDD have to do with PICs? I know that there may be people who know this, or who are interested in speed of light discussions or what things people blew up 20 years ago, but I am close do desubscribing because of the noise. I really enjoy learning from and contributing to the piclist, although gave up once before (before the labelling) because of this. I know that I could just desubscribe from OT, but it would seem to make more sense if people interested in other topics discussed them on the appropriate boards. ... yes I know, I've probably gone and started a 20-post thread on a subject unrelated to PICs ... Simon. --- On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 12:44:05AM -0700, Lee Jones wrote: > > how to format a 80GB hard drive ..... the drive is not new > > and it is already NTFS formated ...... > > Do you want to reformat the entire drive or a partition on it? > > What are you trying to do with the drive and/or partitions? > > To receive a "good" answer, you need to provide more details. > Here's some general information that may answer your question. > > If you want to format the entire drive, then you need a utility > provided by the drive manufacturer. Usually you can download > it from the manufacturer's web site -- assuming that you are > using an Intel-style architecture CPU and IDE/ATA or SCSI disk. > General availability is harder for other, odd interfaces or for > non-Intel architecture systems. > > Your mention of "already NTFS formated" implies you are working > at the partition level and within Windows NT/2000/XP. If so, > use the Microsoft provided utilities to repartition it and/or > reformat it (such as fdisk, format, or Disk Administrator). > > If you're switching to another operating system, such as Linux > or NetBSD, use the utilties that come with it to manipulate the > partition tables and/or format the partitions. > > Lee Jones > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: > [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads > > > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads