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re: "Windows was unable to complete the format." Monday, January 24, 2005 at 2:45 am Posted by Steve B (1909 messages posted) You will have to format using NTFS. If you need FAT32 it will have to be formatted with some other alleged OS. On Sunday, January 23, 2005 at 9:14 pm, Daniel wrote: >I just got a brand new Western Digital 80Gig hard drive. I partitioned it so my C: >(Windows) drive is 10Gig and my D: (backup files) to be the remaining. I formatted >the C: drive with FAT32. I installed Windows 2000 on it. I got all the updates yada >yada yada. Okay. Now I go into My Computer, right click the D drive, click Format, >keep all the settings at default, then click Start. It gets to the end like it's >about to finish, then it says "Windows was unable to complete the format." Anyway, >I'm asking if there is a way I can fix this. > >Thank you. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: "Windows was unable to complete the format." Monday, January 24, 2005 at 2:48 am Posted by Steve B (1909 messages posted) I should have mentioned that Win2000 will format FAT32 only if the partition is less than 32 GB. On Monday, January 24, 2005 at 2:45 am, Steve B wrote: >You will have to format using NTFS. If you need FAT32 it will have to be formatted >with some other alleged OS. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: "Windows was unable to complete the format." Monday, January 24, 2005 at 2:50 am Posted by Steve B (1909 messages posted) And you can delete the D partition and create smaller ones using Disk Management. Personally I always use NTFS but you may need FAT32 if you also run Win9x. On Monday, January 24, 2005 at 2:48 am, Steve B wrote: >I should have mentioned that Win2000 will format FAT32 only if the partition is less >than 32 GB. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: "Windows was unable to complete the format." Monday, January 24, 2005 at 8:45 am Posted by adrian (804 messages posted) If you have access to Partition Magic, you may be able to do it in number of ways. If you have already data in partition D:, you will be able to resize it without losing your data. If it is still unformated space, you will be able to format it in FAT32 without the 32MB limitation. But do you really need FAT32? [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum