quick hard drive question

[Matt]

I hae a Dell XPS at work and I got a 72 GB Raptor drive as my primary drive
when I ordered my system. I already had a 32 GB Raptor so I reformatted both
drives and set the 36 gig as the C drive. But when I go into disk management
it shows the 72 GB as 39MB Healthy (EISA Configuration) 68.88 GB
unallocated. What is this 39 MB EISA Config and how do I remove it? I want
to completely wipe the drive and start it from scratch.

 

[David Maynard]

I hae a Dell XPS at work and I got a 72 GB Raptor drive as my primary drive
when I ordered my system. I already had a 32 GB Raptor so I reformatted both
drives and set the 36 gig as the C drive. But when I go into disk management
it shows the 72 GB as 39MB Healthy (EISA Configuration) 68.88 GB
unallocated. What is this 39 MB EISA Config and how do I remove it? I want
to completely wipe the drive and start it from scratch.

From your description I can't figure out what you had, got, changed, have
windows on, when, or where but it sounds to me like the Windows XP assigned
serial number is still active and once XP assigns a drive letter to a
partition it remains that drive letter no matter what you change the
jumpers to.

You need to remove the partitions and do an MBR on them just to be on the
safe side (MBR should kill the serial info if removing the partition doesn't)

 

[Matt]

Matt wrote:

You need to remove the partitions and do an MBR on them just to be on the
safe side (MBR should kill the serial info if removing the partition
doesn't)

I tried removing the partition in XP but for some reason it won't touch that
first part.

 

[Matt]

I tried removing the partition in XP but for some reason it won't touch
that first part.

never mind.... used that wrong tool apparently