Clint
Download windows ME boot disk from bootdisk.com
run the file after you have it downloaded it will make a boot disk for you.
Then unhook the master drive in your machine and put the new 80gig in as MASTER
Run your  BIOS setup to see the new hook up
Then boot with the ME boot disk and run FDISK and then Format the new drive.
When it done with format power down and put the old HD in as master and the new HD 
as slave and then run the BIOS setup to see the new setup.
then reboot and it should startup with new 80gig HD in place.
NOTE***the ME boot disk will see HD's over 32gig and let you format them right. ( 
with Full cap.)(use the full 80gig size)







On Wednesday, December 29, 2004 at 1:43 pm, Clint Heintzelman wrote:

>I am trying to add an 80gig hard drive to my system.  It needs to be partitioned 

>and formatted.  W2000 recognizes the drive is present but will not format nor partition 

>it.  Is there any way to get W2000 to assign a drive number to it??  I have tried 

>using LBA on and LBA off and neither works.  LBA = Logical Block Addressing, which 

>I understand is used for larger drives. 

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