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  1. #1


    Geoffry Guest

    Formatting a drive D:

    I added a 2nd Virtual Drive and after reading the forum I found why it didn't
    show up; I still need to format it.

    I tried to open a cmd window and but Fdisk wasn't available.
    I tried Format, but it required that I have the volume name, which for some
    reason I couldn't match. It also required me to use FAT32 and didn't allow
    NTFS.

    I simply want a data & program drive with no OS installed. Can't I easily
    do this from cmd window within my XP guest OS?



    Geoffry

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  2. #2


    Mark Rae [MVP] Guest

    Re: Formatting a drive D:

    "Geoffry" <Geoffry@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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    > I simply want a data & program drive with no OS installed. Can't I easily
    > do this from cmd window within my XP guest OS?
    Yes you can, in exactly the same way you would if you had added a physical
    drive to a physical computer... Remember that, as far as software (both OS
    and apps) is concerned, there is no difference between a physical machine
    and a virtual machine...

    Steve has provided you with the answer, but this isn't a Virtual PC question
    per se..


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