Question about reformatting a HD with Partitions (Vickie's Secret pic for your troubles)

[Kanalua]

I want to reformat the boot up c: partition on my HD, will it reformat my d: logical partition as well? I want to format the partition with WinME on it, then install WinXP, keeping all my back-up files on the D: partition.

Any suggestions.

Thanks in advance.

picky of Vicky's!!

 

[Theslowone]

I am not sure if it will work but it seems like it will. Windows xp will bring you to a screen that allows you to format, if it shows up your c: and d: drive on that list then it is possible just to format that single drive letter, and not the other one.

 

[Kanalua]

<< Windows xp will bring you to a screen that allows you to format, if it shows up your c: and d: drive on that list then it is possible just to format that single drive letter, and not the other one. >>



Is there anyway to format the drive before WinXP, like in WinME, and only format the c: drive and not the d: partition?

Good suggestion.

 

[Theslowone]

You could get a bootup disk and try from there, do a c:\format C:
don't know how this will effect the over all scheme of things but it still should work.

 

[Staver]

That will work as long as you don't format D:\ or remove that partition. If you mean partitioning C:\ into more partitions then the D:\ drive' letter may change.

 

[Kanalua]

Yeah, i just want to reformat c: not d: the logical partition.

 

[AKA]

Will work fine.. formatting one partition wont have any affect on the other partitions.