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Ive been facing a hard disk boot problem for about a week
now, where i cant boot to my HDD because of a disk boot
failure. Ive decided to just format my HDD and start
over. Im using XP professional and I have my HDD
partitioned into 3 (one primary and two logical) and I
did this using the Western Digital software that came
with my HDD. However, Im alittle new to working with
partitions. My question is how do I correctly go about
clearing my HDD? Im not concerend about backing up
anything becuase besides the operating system my HDD is
basically blank. Do I first delete the two logical
partitions and the extended parition using disk
management in XP? Then how do i delete the final primary
partition? Can I do this through windows or must I boot
using the XP CD and follow some instruction through
there? Must I format the HDD even after deleting all the
partitions? And finally, after everything has been
deleted and im installing windows again, do you
recommmend I configure my HDD's partitions through the
windows installlation or through the western digital
software? Thanks alot.
Ameeer
Ive been facing a hard disk boot problem for about a week
now, where i cant boot to my HDD because of a disk boot
failure. Ive decided to just format my HDD and start
over. Im using XP professional and I have my HDD
partitioned into 3 (one primary and two logical) and I
did this using the Western Digital software that came
with my HDD. However, Im alittle new to working with
partitions. My question is how do I correctly go about
clearing my HDD? Im not concerend about backing up
anything becuase besides the operating system my HDD is
basically blank. Do I first delete the two logical
partitions and the extended parition using disk
management in XP? Then how do i delete the final primary
partition? Can I do this through windows or must I boot
using the XP CD and follow some instruction through
there? Must I format the HDD even after deleting all the
partitions? And finally, after everything has been
deleted and im installing windows again, do you
recommmend I configure my HDD's partitions through the
windows installlation or through the western digital
software? Thanks alot.
Ameeer