chow choppe Posted June 1, 2006 Share Posted June 1, 2006 hi everyone. I have a few questions that i need someone to answer please: i had windows xp 32 on my system. with my primary partition too less from a total of 160 gb. now i installed a new versiows xp 32 bit on my D: and formatted my e and f: but i am not able to format c: it says"unable to complete the format". also still its showing older operating system in OS choices menu when system starts. what can i do to clear it. now i want just my new operating system which is in d: but on the same hand i want to delete partition c: and accomodate that space in any of other drives and make my current windows installation drive(D as primary. Can someone help me with this thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtb0506 Posted June 2, 2006 Share Posted June 2, 2006 hey soulds like what you need to do is physically go inside the machine and make your D: drive the master drive and the other two slaves. This will cause the motherboard to call your former D: drive the C: drive. you can then format the other drives as required. Read the documentation of the drives to see how this should be configured physically. Your bios will automatically name the hard drives according to their boot order, so C: should be where the operating system is located. Hope that made sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chow choppe Posted June 2, 2006 Author Share Posted June 2, 2006 they are the partitions of the same drive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lecameleon Posted August 16, 2006 Share Posted August 16, 2006 Hi Khanna (you know me from another forum ) Yeah, one thing you must not do.. (I hope you havent done it already to your eternal mortification..).. If you format this partition C: then kiss goodbye to all the installations you have.. remember you have the boot.ini and the ntldr files in the c drive.. there is no point in formatting it and you will end up not being able to log in at all.. Easier way.. reinstall xp on the c drive.. fresh install and when you get to the option to install on any partitiion choose C but allow changes to the partition (format)... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alikashan Posted August 16, 2006 Share Posted August 16, 2006 i m not master of installing windows but its what i do for me after 3-4 months always. . so as far as i go just run your installation again go till that part where you get the option to delete/remake partitions i think its the part where you also assign a partition to install windows on. just go to that part and delete c partition. and after that it must show you the size of the partition as unpartitioned disk space. now you can make a new partition of this space again:p . may b it help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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