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When I install Win2KSP4 it wants to format 190 GB and it takes about an hour.

Is there anyway to do a "quick" format?

Further annoyances:

If I shut my computer down and restart while it is reformatting, leading to a "damaged" partition, or sometimes if I just have pre-existing FAT32 partitions, it won't recognize all of the disk. So I have to reboot into DOS 7.1 and use Ranish Partition manager to fix the disk up for it :angry:

Furthermore, it claims the disk is only 127 GB but it will go ahead and add 190 GB partition to it. I assume this is some residual 48-bit LBA bug that MS never fixed... :angry:


Posted

Format it on an already installed machine then take it out and stuff it into machine you are installing.. it it sees a blank useable partition.. it shouldnt want to format....

It has been a while with W2k.. unsure as to if this is true or not

Posted (edited)

You can use a disk manager. There are many out there but I use ontrack. It formats my 120 gb in about 5 minutes. It also can zero fill HD but it takes a little longer. Then format to use.

Hope this helps

Edited by dirtwarrior
Posted

Is this a Windows 2000 RTM CD, or have you slipstreamed SP4 onto it? I know W2K prior to SP3 had issues with large hard disks formatted for FAT32. You may have less trouble if you just format it NTFS :).

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No, they just never included the "Quick" format option with 2000...only XP and above have it. As everyone has already mentioned, if you do the format before install with a seperate program you can achieve the same results.

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