[ddots-l] Formatting Hard Drives success!

Hello listers,

For those following this little drama with the Glyph firewire drive, I managed to do an end-run around disk management, and do the formatting at the dos prompt level. And, might I add, I am Pleased-very pleased to have done it myself, and not having had to deal with tech support at glyph or anywhere else for that matter.

There is a dos level disk management utility (accessible to jaws) called diskpart which is a line interpreter-capable of exucuting single typed commands, or pre-written script files. there is full documentation on its use available at microsoft's website.

Its very much like using commands at the dos prompt, but the prompt is "diskpart>", and the commands available are strictly for disk management.
Using it, I was able to list all disks, volumes, and partitions on the system. Set focus to the Glyph. Create a primary partition and assign a drive letter to it. Then, in My Computer, it was listed as a drive with a "raw" file system in its property pages. Then, from its context menu I was able to format it as NTFS.

Basically, the problem was that it was an Unpartitioned disk, and the windows disk management console snap-in wouldn't allow anything to be done with it. Diskpart gets you around those limitations and gives you a lot of power and flexibility that you don't get in the Disk Management utility from administrative tools in control panel.

If anyone is interested in learning more, I can direct you to the website detailing the use of the diskpart utility.




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