Reformatting slave drive

[Guest]

I recently had a corruption on my hard drive and had to install a new one
with a fresh version of windows xp. I set my old hard drive up as a secondary
drive to get all my valuable files off and now want to reformat it so it is
completely blank including the corrupted os system. Any ideas from you
geniuses out there?

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

After you retrieve your files, simply right click the drive in Windows
Explorer and select format.

*NOTE* Be sure that the system is not booting from the old drive before
formatting. If it is, formatting will lose the boot information and the
system will not load. If this is the case, you are better to just simply
delete the remnants of the old installation from the drive rather than
formatting.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Ricky]

You should be able to right click the drive and choose format.

 

[Michael Stevens]

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I recently had a corruption on my hard drive and had to install a new
one with a fresh version of windows xp. I set my old hard drive up as
a secondary drive to get all my valuable files off and now want to
reformat it so it is completely blank including the corrupted os
system. Any ideas from you geniuses out there?

Click on the link below, or copy and paste the link into the address box
if using the web based newsgroup.
Format XP
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/format_XP.htm

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