formatting scsi hd

[matt11601]

I have a scsi card with two HD's on it. One is formatted for Win2K3 server and has the OS on it. The other one I just got and is formatted for DOS...my question is how do I format the new HD to work with Win2K3 Server? Is there a program I can use or does WinServer have something I can do? Also, I can only boot from floppy and not from my CDROM drive on the server. Thanks for your time and any help you can offer.

-matt

[Alfons]

I have a scsi card with two HD's on it. One is formatted for Win2K3 server and has the OS on it. The other one I just got and is formatted for DOS...my question is how do I format the new HD to work with Win2K3 Server? Is there a program I can use or does WinServer have something I can do? Also, I can only boot from floppy and not from my CDROM drive on the server. Thanks for your time and any help you can offer.

-matt
The W2K Server disk is probably configured as NTFS and the DOS could be either FAT16 or 32, depending on which version of DOS was used, but the W2K OS should be able to see both and if you want to change things, look under Administrative Tools and select the Computer Management Utility which will have Disk Management as a subset of its components. This utility will allow you to change the configuration of your disks - partitioning and formatting are just a part of the toolset available here.

For more detailed information, you'll need to describe what you want to do with the disk that's configured as FAT.

P.S. These utilities don't care whether the disks are IDE, SCSI, etc - treats them all the same. The SCSI utilities, which include drivers for the host adapter, will allow the computer to deal with these devices and for you to configure things the way you want. The SCSI utilities will allow you to see what's attached, its device #, and things like that - there will also be some disk configuration utilities in the group as well, but you can use the ones available in W2K.

[matt11601]

Well all I want to do is use the drive. I opened disk management like you said and it said the disk is online and it is 100% free but under the file system column it is blank. What should I do to make the disk usable for saving information?

Thanks for the help.

[Alfons]

Well all I want to do is use the drive. I opened disk management like you said and it said the disk is online and it is 100% free but under the file system column it is blank. What should I do to make the disk usable for saving information?

Thanks for the help.
You would first want to partition it in the desired file structure - FAT or NTFS - and then format each partition to make it useable for storage. If you want to make it into a drive that can be used for an OS, then you'll need to make a Primary Partition on the drive first and then an Extended Partition (or more Primary) for the rest. The extended partition can, if desired be broken down into multiple logical drives. If you wish to boot from this drive at some point, then you'll need to make the Primary Partition Active, but this can be done anytime.

[matt11601]

You would first want to partition it in the desired file structure - FAT or NTFS - and then format each partition to make it useable for storage. If you want to make it into a drive that can be used for an OS, then you'll need to make a Primary Partition on the drive first and then an Extended Partition (or more Primary) for the rest. The extended partition can, if desired be broken down into multiple logical drives. If you wish to boot from this drive at some point, then you'll need to make the Primary Partition Active, but this can be done anytime.

Thanks a lot, it workerd flawlessly.