How do I format additional hard drive?

Hi Alex;

If you use QT-Parted, you will be able to format it to any Linux-format you like, ext3 or ReiserFS...

Ruud

I had problems using GParted or QTParted when adding a new drive. I ended up using Partition Magic. After Partition Magic was used initially l could use GParted after that. If you are dual booted with windose install Partition Magic there and format your new drive. If you have windose on another computer install it there and make a couple of floppys using Partition Magic.

http://www.soft32.com/download_151.html

Wayne

Wow!
I bought Partition Magic 8.0 from BestBuy several YEARS ago, for about $150, IIRC, and now it's shareware! And for $70.

It's about the best HD recovery tool you can get, free or not.
--
GreyGeek

HDD5 em what is that.

linux calles it drives some thing elce not like C: or D:

this is what my only drive comes up as

/hda/

which means (H)ard (d)isk A

A being your first hard disk

B being your second

though it could of called you hardisk /hdd5/
is that what it looks like?

though you can go it to Qtparted and format the drive from there

you will see

/dev/hda1/
/dev/hdd5/

dev means device

and make sure you use the correct drive!
and see if you can format it

you can run Qtparted from "system" "file system" "Qtparted"

I don't have Partition Magic on my system so I used QT-Parted and it worked OK.

Thank you all for your help,

Alex

If you are sure that the partition is hdd5 then, from a root terminal, type:

mkfs -t ext3 /dev/hdd5

If all you need to do is mount the partition and do not wish to reformat, then, from a root terminal, type:

mkdir /mnt/oldwindows
##(where "oldwindows" is the name you choose for the
## mountpoint for the partition, it can be anything)

mount -t auto /dev/hdd5 /mnt/oldwindows
## If your drive is formatted NTFS, then writing will be
## disabled, I believe.

If you want the drive mounted at boot, you will need to add a line to your fstab file located in the /etc directory. Edit the file: /etc/fstab as root and add a line like:

/dev/hdd5 /mnt/oldwindows auto rw,auto,user,async 0 0

You might want to replace the first instance of "auto" with the exact type of filesystem, ie: vfat, ntfs, or ext3 as the case may apply. This should work if you went with my example.