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windows XP drive format

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by raghuveer_rachakonda

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does anyone knows how to format a drive containing windows files for a multi operating system case(XP & XP)?

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by rob miners

Boot from it and when you get to the install screen you will be able to Delete the Partitions. No sense wasting money.

by mamies

Cute Partition Manager. It boots from a CD, its free and it allows you to manage more then just microsoft related partitions such as ext3 for linux. I like this tool

by raghuveer_rachakonda

thanks for your concern n giving an idea for the problem i have. But the idea u have given works if we need to delete all the partitions if deleted from a bootable cd. Actually what i need is to delete another windows(xp) drive having all other data unchanged including the original windows. If we have any solution for this please tell me.

by ic-it

You have 1 drive with two or more partitions. Two of these partitions contain an OS. You want to delete one OS and leave the other intact.
In that case you verify the ability to boot into the correct partition. Double check the path. (To verify which OS you are in type this at a cmd prompt;
echo %windir%). If the partition to be deleted has the boot files on it, be careful not to delete these (Boot.ini,NTLDR, and ntdetect.com, all hidden files).
If XP is the boot manager, you may want to edit the boot.ini file to remove the now deleted OS, or at least set the timer to 1 or 0.

by rob miners

Boot into the Drive that you want to keep. As bwilmot has suggested check to see that the Boot.ini file resides in the Root Directory.

Right click on My Computer, select Manage, and then click ?Disk Management.?

In the right hand pane you will have two Hard Drives listed as Disk0 and Disk1.

If you are keeping the original Drive it will be Disk0.

Right click on Disk1 and delete the Partition.

You will have to modify the Boot.ini file to remove the second Drive.

let us know how you get on.

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