formatting old boot drive

[robphelan]

i moved from IDE to SATA a few months ago and was able to easily copy my old boot drive to my new one using Seagate's utility.

I didn't want to format the old one right away in case I had any problems.

well, now i want to format it. the problem is when I attach that one to the mobo, it's the one selected to boot from.

I can't change that to SATA in the bios - only to CD or floppy.

any ideas on how to format it?

thanks,
robert.

 

[paoliman]

Hi
If you have your windows cd boot to it if your mobo supports that. or create a system disk and boot to the floppy. Then format.
hope this helps.