Format 400GB HDD

[anni]

Hi,
I am not able to format 400GB seagate HDD with fat32. In this forum i saw that every one suggest partion magic 8.0. I also download, but it is a demo version . It only demonstrates . nothing did actually. (powerquest partition magic 8.0 size ~22 MB)
I installed win xp SP2 successfully. and from here when i right click- format , or disk management then only ntfs option available, fat32 not there.
Please suggest any freewere utility which format 400GB seagate HDD with FAT32 partions (my all partitions having <80 Gb and as per info from Micro soft website fat32 support up to 2TB HDD ) .
Anni

[din]

Get Gparted Live CD. That is free, opensource and will do the work.

Get it from - http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php

Credits : All credits goes to the senior member Nucleuskore who posted details in this forum many times.

[anni]

Is is possible to install window 2000 server SP4 on 400GB seagate HDD. I tried but it won't recognize my partions. It shows some unpartion space ~130 GB. I already install win xp SP2 proff. and from here i created all partion and format as NFTS. Now from dos, using window 200 server including service pack 4 boot disk, i am tring to install it but when setup start and it was suppose to show the partitons of disk, it shows c drive -> unformated, and free space 130 gb like that.


anni.

[paroh]

for for ntfs for higher partition size. or for fat32 format each partition with 32gb

[thewisecrab]

Why fat32 when u can NTFS?
it is far more stable and can help in encryption of files.
Unless of course you want Windows 98
Also, you cant for,mat more than 32GB of data in FAT32
Thus, NTFS is recommended

[anni]

That's ok, I already format with NTFS. I want to know anybody install window 2000 server on 400 GB disk or not as it doesn't shows my full disk/ partitions created by disk management window xp service pack 2.
I want to know is window 2000 server sp4 support 400 gb disk? any idea?