I have somehow managed to flub 3 installations of Win XP. Now everytime I boot up, I am greeted with 3 versions of XP to boot to. The more recent install ended up on my D Drive (I have 2 40 gig drives, one is partitioned in half). When I have thelocal drive designated as other than C, there seems to be trouble with some applications and of the 3 installs, 1 is on E and one is on D. I looked around on this site and on Microsoft’s site but could not find this explained in layman terms. WhatI’m trying to do is clean both hard drives completely and start from scratch and install XP on my c drive so that when I boot up, I don’t have 3 choices as well. When I tried to format the hard drives from the gui, Windows wouldn’t let me format the D or C drive. I tried from the command prompt as well with the same results. I made a system disk after a half day of reading tech pages on how to do this in XP but the system disk didn’t have the format command on it. So I tried a system disk Ihad when I used to use Windows M.E. but when I formatted that way, months ago, it was a pain in the arse when I installed XP. So, being at my wit’s end, I’m hoping maybe somehow out there knows of a sure-fire, better way of simply wiping my disks clean so I can install a clean version of XP Pro.
I sincerely appreciate any suggestions.
Thanks again.
Joe
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