Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!

Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!

  • Congratulations TouchToneTommy on being selected by the Tek-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

Changing Primary Partition

Status
Not open for further replies.

skhope

IS-IT--Management
Aug 30, 2002
44
GB
HI, I have a win2k server (IBM hardware) and would like to install SUS. Problem is that it won't install if your primary partition isn't NTFS. There is one partition i have which i think must be the ibm partition. It is the primary partition, It has no drive letter, and in disk management it says (EISA configuration) and when i right click and try to find its properties everything is greyed out, so i can't cahnge anything...any suggestions? I have no need for this partition, can i remove it? How?
 
The IBM BIOS and server settings are usually stored in that partition. I don't suggest you use it. It would an idea to slap another hard drive and create yourself a new partition/drive with NTFS. If that's too costly and/or you have no more physical room available, maybe you should revise your game plan to install the SUS somewhere else.

You didn't describe your server much so I'm just guessing.



"In space, nobody can hear you click..."
 
thanks for the reply, is there any way of leaving it, but having it so its NOT the primary partition?
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Part and Inventory Search

Sponsor

Back
Top