Formatting hard drive. Question.

[stiper327b]

OK,

I just got a 120GB HD, formatted and installed XP. I also have another 20GB HD that has an install of Win XP. My question would be, is there a way to totally format the 20GB with the Win XP disc without installing XP?

I've already tried to format the drive through Windows and the command prompt, and neither have worked.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[IamDavid]

To format it in XP go to the computer management console. Under storage there is a disk management. do it there.

edit: to get to the management console right click on my computer and click manage.

 

[Lord Evermore]

Boot to WinXP CD, go through the setup process till it shows your partitions, select to format the partitions (or delete them).

Of course, you're doing something wrong if you can't format it in XP itself.

 

[stiper327b]

Originally posted by: Lord Evermore
Boot to WinXP CD, go through the setup process till it shows your partitions, select to format the partitions (or delete them).

Of course, you're doing something wrong if you can't format it in XP itself.

But after the format, it starts installing XP, which I do not want on the extra drive.

 

[Macro2]

fdisk. You can get a copy off any windows 9X, ME startup disk.
Just delete all the partitions. Even the non dos one.
Then re-create one and format it.

Mac

 

[Lord Evermore]

After the format with the CD, you can just cancel the install or reboot the computer. The partition gets created before any files are copied.

 

[Winchester]

Do the XP setup thing, until you get to the partition screen, find your HD then delete the partitions, then create the partitions, dont hit enter to format etc, just reboot your system and it should show up under My Computer, right click and then format it.

 

[stevewm]

You do not need to boot of the XP CD or use Fdisk.

Do exactlly what IamDavid said. You can delete the partitions from there and re-create them. Disk Management is basically the fdisk of 2k and XP.