- Dec 12, 2013
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Hi guys,
I had a desktop with two drives, XP installed on the first, data on the second.
I've formatted only the second(since you obviously cannot format the drive where Windows is currently stored on) and installed Win7 on the second. My plan was to start Win7 and then format the drive where WinXP was stored on earlier. But unfortunately that isn't so easy, or even impossible. I now know I forgot about the 'Drives options' while installing Win7..
I don't want to reinstall Win7 and many programs again so I'm wondering if there's anything I can do. CMD isn't able to format, i've changed drive letters and everything in drive-management but nothing helps.. Maybe booting with the Win7 DVD and formatting the drive is a solution.
The thing is, I don't know how to do. All the tutorials I find are about performing a clean install or changing partitions and everything but none of them is of any use.
If anyone could help me, or could refer to a useful tutorial, I would be really grateful!!
PS: The HDD's are two physical disks in one device.
PPS: If there is another post describing this exact problem, sorry. For bad english, also.
Thanks in advance.
I had a desktop with two drives, XP installed on the first, data on the second.
I've formatted only the second(since you obviously cannot format the drive where Windows is currently stored on) and installed Win7 on the second. My plan was to start Win7 and then format the drive where WinXP was stored on earlier. But unfortunately that isn't so easy, or even impossible. I now know I forgot about the 'Drives options' while installing Win7..
I don't want to reinstall Win7 and many programs again so I'm wondering if there's anything I can do. CMD isn't able to format, i've changed drive letters and everything in drive-management but nothing helps.. Maybe booting with the Win7 DVD and formatting the drive is a solution.
The thing is, I don't know how to do. All the tutorials I find are about performing a clean install or changing partitions and everything but none of them is of any use.
If anyone could help me, or could refer to a useful tutorial, I would be really grateful!!
PS: The HDD's are two physical disks in one device.
PPS: If there is another post describing this exact problem, sorry. For bad english, also.
Thanks in advance.
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