Hey everyone today i tried reformating my pc with the XP disk. I whent through everything and when the computer started everything was uninstalled like i wanted but every file was still in the c and d drive.... so i did it again and now i got everything on the d drive uninstalled and a new copy of Windows XP on the d drive. So now what this mean is i got a copy of XP on the C drive and now the D Drive..... this is pissing me off. all i want to do is remove everything on the c drive and and d and only have xp on the c drive please help!!


thankyou
Is D: a SEPARATE physical drive or are C: and D: partitions on a single drive?

C: and D: are partitions on a single drive.OK.   Here's what I would do.  Capitals and underlining are for emphasis only.

I assume you currently have a multi-booting system and must select either C: or D: from which to boot.

 1..   Boot to the copy of XP on the C: partition.
 2..   Click Start>Run type CMD in the dialog box and click OK.
 3..   At the Command Prompt type CD\ to BRING up the C: prompt.
 4..   At the C: prompt type FORMAT D: /FS:NTFS (note the command is Format D: etc).   Respond Y to the file deletion WARNING message.  Partition D: will be formatted, all files on that partition will be lost.

You should now only have XP installed on C: drive but you may have to edit your Boot.ini file to remove reference to to the copy of XP which was on D: drive.  Post back if you need help with this.  You COULD boot from your XP cd,  format C: partition and reinstall XP if you wish.  The MS KB ARTICLE is here.

All of the above could be achieved by booting from the XP cd but, as I said, that's how I would do it.

Good luck

Thank you so much for your help i will try right now.  I will post back if it worked or if i need help.Ok it worked everything is off the D Drive.  But when i restart it it still asks me if i wana boot from the D drive.  I think i gota edit the Boot.ini like you said.  If you could please tell me how to do that.    Once again Thank you very much.I think i know how to edit it ( i looked at a microsoft page ) But please tell me how you would do it


ThanksExcellent - just follow the instructions on the MS KB

Below is a copy of my boot.ini file which might assist, after editing yours should possibly be the same:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn

(note that the final line is just a continuance of the line above, not a line on its own.)

Good luck - please post back with your outcome.

BTW I would simply have edited boot.ini using the good (old fashioned) Edit.com prog run from the Command Prompt but it's possibly better for you to do some reading first.  I don't know your level of expertise.


Ok i opend the Boot.ini file and i got this



[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect


Just wondering what line do i delete? Quote from: XRADEONX on July 28, 2007, 09:53:27 PM

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect


Just wondering what line do i delete?