Windows unable to complete HDD format.

matt3118

matt3118

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My primary drive is a western digital 250GB SATA drive with Windows XP Professional.
I am trying to reformat my extra, secondary drive which was used as the primary in a 37.5GB Dell computer.

I want it reformatted because it still has all the Windows OS files from when I was a primary.
The C drive is the one I want formatted.
BeforeReformat.jpg

The Volume Label section is the only part that I'm not sure what to fill in with.
I've tried leaving it blank, I've also tried C, C:, (C:), and Local Disk (C:).
I've tried it with the Quick Format option and without.
No matter what I try, I either get this message at the very beginning, or at the end-
AfterReformat.jpg

I don't know what to do! I can't find anything on Google or on CompForums.
 
Starwarsman said:
C must be the drive you're running off of, it would crash your computer.
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It's not though. I boot with my D drive. C still has the old OS files because I haven't reformatted it since I got my new one. How do I tell my Compy that C isn't needed anymore?
 
So the ~30GB drive doesn't have XP on it?
Because it looks like your systems is recognizing the ~30Gb drive as the boot disk and is booting into it and setting it as "C:", the regular Windows boot disk.
 
If you open a command prompt window and type 'set system' what does it say the SystemDrive (or SystemRoot) is?
 
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