Can not format 127GB partition of a 200 GB harddrive

[John]

I installed a Western Digital JB 200 Gb Hard drive using
a Promise Technology Controller card.

I partition the hard drive into two drives.

I formated and install Windows XP on the smaller
partition.

Later I tried to format the larger -- 127 GB --
partition.

It begins formating. Things seem to be going okay;
however, at the end of the formating I get the message
that the formating of drive D could not be completed.
That it was not able to format drive D.

I disabled the antivirus before beginning the formating.

What am I missing. Please help.

Thanks,
JOhn

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

John;
Partition to NTFS instead of FAT32.
Windows XP can not partition that large of a FAT 32 partition.

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"John" > wrote in message
...
> I installed a Western Digital JB 200 Gb Hard drive using
> a Promise Technology Controller card.
>
> I partition the hard drive into two drives.
>
> I formated and install Windows XP on the smaller
> partition.
>
> Later I tried to format the larger -- 127 GB --
> partition.
>
> It begins formating. Things seem to be going okay;
> however, at the end of the formating I get the message
> that the formating of drive D could not be completed.
> That it was not able to format drive D.
>
> I disabled the antivirus before beginning the formating.
>
> What am I missing. Please help.
>
> Thanks,
> JOhn

[John]

Jupiter,
Thanks; however I was formating in NTFS.

John
>-----Original Message-----
>John;
>Partition to NTFS instead of FAT32.
>Windows XP can not partition that large of a FAT 32
partition.
>
>--
>Jupiter Jones [MVP]
>An easier way to read newsgroup messages:
>http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/using/newsgroups/s
etup.asp
>Please respond to newsgroup only for everyone's benefit.
>
>
>"John" > wrote in message
...
>> I installed a Western Digital JB 200 Gb Hard drive
using
>> a Promise Technology Controller card.
>>
>> I partition the hard drive into two drives.
>>
>> I formated and install Windows XP on the smaller
>> partition.
>>
>> Later I tried to format the larger -- 127 GB --
>> partition.
>>
>> It begins formating. Things seem to be going okay;
>> however, at the end of the formating I get the message
>> that the formating of drive D could not be completed.
>> That it was not able to format drive D.
>>
>> I disabled the antivirus before beginning the
formating.
>>
>> What am I missing. Please help.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> JOhn
>
>
>.
>

[Peter Hutchison]

On Fri, 23 May 2003 19:34:04 -0700, "John" >
wrote:

>Jupiter,
>Thanks; however I was formating in NTFS.
>
>John
>>-----Original Message-----
>>John;
>>Partition to NTFS instead of FAT32.
>>Windows XP can not partition that large of a FAT 32
>partition.
>>
Sounds like the BIOS does recognise this large hard disk. Download and
install an update to fix this.

Peter Hutchison
Windows FAQ
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