Quick question - boot partition

Keylow · 15 Feb 2006 at 11:32

Just setting up Windows 2000 on my server and it asks me how big the boot partition should be. It defaults to 4096 out of 69076 megabytes. Now is this just something the OS needs or does this define the total amount of useable space I will have when it is fully set up?

n3x · 15 Feb 2006 at 16:09

it means it will create a 4gig partition and install windows on it. Your other 65gigs will be invisible until u create another partition or partitions to use it. it all depends how u want to organise your drive

Keylow · 15 Feb 2006 at 18:10

DOne it and found out the hard way :rolleyes:

I created a 30gig boot partition and have another 30 or so doing nothing. I dont really need that extra space so ill leave it for now.

Keylow · 15 Feb 2006 at 21:32

Right. I think it would be useful to have the secodn partition doing something. I have about a 30 gig out of 60 gig partition on windows server 2000. I want to make the other 30Gb useable. How would I go about doing this? The drive is 4x 10KRPM SCSI drives in RAID 0 if that has any relevance.

Also, I cant seem to get the drive on said machine to show up on the network. Ive set it up to be shared but it doesnt appear.

n3x · 16 Feb 2006 at 09:46

I'm not sure if this will work as ive not used raided drives before but... Right click on My Computer and choose manage. Then go to Disk Management and it will show all the drive connected to your pc. Just right click in the unpartition space on the drive u want and create a new partition!

Can all pc's communicate over the network ok? ping?

Keylow · 16 Feb 2006 at 11:13

Cheers. I sorted the hard drive sharing, wasn't set up properly