Synomenon Posted March 29, 2005 Share Posted March 29, 2005 My favorite / primary boot CD that I use right now for creating partitions and formatting them is the WindowsME OEM boot CD w/ RAMdrive from:http://bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htmIt has fdisk and can format partitions into FAT32. Is there something like this that can recognize a 250GB hard drive and make a single partition of the whole 250GB and that can also format it into NTFS? Thanks for any help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dahi Posted March 29, 2005 Share Posted March 29, 2005 Yep, BartPE, or WinPE from MS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synomenon Posted March 29, 2005 Author Share Posted March 29, 2005 Thanks Dahi, but it looks like you need to have Windows installed to run BartPE. I need to be able to do this stuff before installing Windows. So is there any utility like FDISK that can recognize and partition a WHOLE 250GB hard drive into one 250GB partition and also that can format it into NTFS? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thinkster Posted March 31, 2005 Share Posted March 31, 2005 I actually just did this tonight for someone. They had bought (2) 250GB Drives that were SATA I booted up the PC with Hiren's 6 and with Partition Magic 8.02, I was able to format both of them quickly in NTFS as FAT32 it would only let me format 199GB. Formatting with NTFS gave me around 237GB. I too used to use the Windows ME boot disk to do my partitioning & Formating, but Partition Magic is much faster plus you get a friendly GUI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
getwired Posted April 1, 2005 Share Posted April 1, 2005 WinPE (and BartPE, it's reverse-engineered twin) are both designed to be used without Windows. They boot from CD - they don't require Windows at all, and will do exactly what you want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incroyable HULK Posted April 1, 2005 Share Posted April 1, 2005 I recommend Acronis Disk Director v9 for Hard Disk Partitionning. This one is far better that Partition Magic... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiquidSage Posted April 1, 2005 Share Posted April 1, 2005 yes... DD 9 is my first choice for OS prep. I have set a 300 gb HD as ntfs with it. Correct detection through mobo and 48-bit LBA ATAPI support could be a set back.This microsoft link explains how to enable 48 bit lba via cmdlines during XP OS install. I have found that though XP sp1 and above support this, it is not enabled by default (at least for me ). 2003 should be fine using that link. I think the minimum build for 2000 supporting LBA is sp4. Also, I have done very large HD formats with paragon's recovery kit cd ran in linux at the menu, not DOS (uses partition manager 6 lite).Getting 237gb from a 250gb HD is around the correct size using ntfs just in case you weren't sure... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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