New D: drive??

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Jack Russell

I installed XP on my laptop that was running ME. I told the installation to
FORMAT the C: and not to partition. Now I see in Explore that I have a
D:\SYSTEM_SAV and it is still a FAT32. XP sp1 is running great on C:\ but it
appears that this D: drive is lurking on the HD and using about 2gigs of
space and loaded with what appears to be backup files (from ME??). If it is
truly a partition, I can live with that, But I want to REMOVE all traces of
the old ME. Can I format this drive to NTFS and use it??
 
Yes...part2.pqi part2a.pqi main.pqi factory.pqi

What do you think??


Bert Kinney said:
Hi Jack,

Do the files in the D:\system_save partition have extensions of .PQI ?


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Regards,
Bert Kinney [MS-MVP DTS]
http://dts-l.org/


Jack said:
I installed XP on my laptop that was running ME. I told
the installation to FORMAT the C: and not to partition.
Now I see in Explore that I have a D:\SYSTEM_SAV and it
is still a FAT32. XP sp1 is running great on C:\ but it
appears that this D: drive is lurking on the HD and using
about 2gigs of space and loaded with what appears to be
backup files (from ME??). If it is truly a partition, I
can live with that, But I want to REMOVE all traces of
the old ME. Can I format this drive to NTFS and use it??
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Hi Jack,

These are file images, most likely a copy of the restore files.
If you have the restore disk on cd then it should ok do delete them.

--
Regards,
Bert Kinney [MS-MVP DTS]
http://dts-l.org/

Jack said:
Yes...part2.pqi part2a.pqi main.pqi factory.pqi

What do you think??


Bert Kinney said:
Hi Jack,

Do the files in the D:\system_save partition have
extensions of .PQI ? --
Regards,
Bert Kinney [MS-MVP DTS]
http://dts-l.org/


Jack said:
I installed XP on my laptop that was running ME. I told
the installation to FORMAT the C: and not to partition.
Now I see in Explore that I have a D:\SYSTEM_SAV and it
is still a FAT32. XP sp1 is running great on C:\ but it
appears that this D: drive is lurking on the HD and
using about 2gigs of space and loaded with what appears
to be backup files (from ME??). If it is truly a
partition, I can live with that, But I want to REMOVE
all traces of the old ME. Can I format this drive to NTFS and use
it??
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