GerryDavid
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I have a Western Digital 20gb hard drive that I bought back in 2000 or so.
At the time I tried to hook it up to the desktop at the time and it was to old to support the 20gb. So I was playing with it and it ended up getting formatted to 500mb's.
After putting it off for a year, I put it into my new desktop pc. But when I go to my computer, right click on drive e, format, I dont get any options other than 500mbs in the drop down list.
How do I format it back to 500mb's? Do I have to go to the command prompt? I tried "fdisk /?" and it said it didnt know the command, then "format /?" and I didnt see the option I was looking for.
If it helps, the pc is windows xp, 2.4ghz emachine.
Theres som options that I dont know whats best. It offers Fat32, fat and ntfs for file systems, whats best for windows xp? And for allocation file size, I had more options than default before but now it says default.
Also Id like to devide the drive up into 2 parts, one for a scratch disk for photoshop, the other for some picture storage/backup. 10gb's isnt much but maybe put the pictures ive worked on to be prints over there or something.
Any advice is welcome. :0)
At the time I tried to hook it up to the desktop at the time and it was to old to support the 20gb. So I was playing with it and it ended up getting formatted to 500mb's.
After putting it off for a year, I put it into my new desktop pc. But when I go to my computer, right click on drive e, format, I dont get any options other than 500mbs in the drop down list.
How do I format it back to 500mb's? Do I have to go to the command prompt? I tried "fdisk /?" and it said it didnt know the command, then "format /?" and I didnt see the option I was looking for.
If it helps, the pc is windows xp, 2.4ghz emachine.
Theres som options that I dont know whats best. It offers Fat32, fat and ntfs for file systems, whats best for windows xp? And for allocation file size, I had more options than default before but now it says default.
Also Id like to devide the drive up into 2 parts, one for a scratch disk for photoshop, the other for some picture storage/backup. 10gb's isnt much but maybe put the pictures ive worked on to be prints over there or something.
Any advice is welcome. :0)