Formating my XP drives

[Guest]

Other then taking the drives out of my computer and plugging it into my
laptop through USB, is there a way I could format my XP drives (1 of which is
set to active (got damn it!!) and vista doesn't even want to touch it because
of that).

This is the current information on my drives:

Disk 0 - Windows XP x64 (D - 74.53 GB NTFS - Healthy (System, Active,
Primary Partition)
Disk 1 - Windows XP (E - 111.78 GB NTFS - Healthy (Primary Partition)
--- the ones above is the ones I want to ride of with a good format ---
Disk 2 - Beautiful Angel (C - 298.09 GB NTFS - Healthy (Boot, Page File,
Active, Crash Dump, Primary Partition)


You think I'd have any luck booting to my Windows Vista CD and running the
command prompt and do a format on the drives I want formated from there?

 

[Carl G]

You might try going to administrative tools , computer management , disk
management and delete the volume before formatting.

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

Go into the system BIOS and set Disk 2 as the boot drive, then boot the
system with the Vista DVD and run a startup repair. Once it is designated as
the System drive, you will be free to format Disk 0. Disk 1 can be formatted
as it stands now, just right click in Windows Explorer the option.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Guest]

Thanks, rick, but when I ran the Vista DVD after setting disk 2 to be the
boot drive, there's no Startup Repair option. I tried auto repair but it
didn't found anything wrong and when I tried booting up with disk 2 as the
boot to drive, it just says no OS found. Any suggestions?

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

Yep, do it again, only this time shut the system down and unplug the other
two drives. Then startup and run the repair. It will have no choice but to
assign disk 2 as the system drive.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Guest]

So I did that, windows recovery found the problem and assigned it as system
drive (or so I think), now in the recovery window it shows Windows Vista
(Recovered) but still when I try to boot to the drive it still says No OS
found. Any suggestions?

 

[Guest]

Welp, seems like I got it working now, what I did was ran the command prompt
by booting to the CD, did a bootrec /fixboot. That didn't worked so I also
tried bootrec /fixmbr (still didn't work), so I backed up my BCD, renamed the
old bcd and rebuild the BCD, works just fine now. Going to connect the
drives now and see if I could format it.