Removing WIndows

[drenader]

Alright so windows was getting buggy and it was that time of the year to do a fresh install. I must have been getting lazy because i ended up with windows on each of my partitions. I tried reformating the older one while on the new install but it never finishes. How do i completly erase the entire partition, removing it is not needed just clearing it of all the junk and the old version of windows. Thank you

Dre

[jajmon]

Win98, 2K, XP?

[drenader]

XP PRO sorry

[jajmon]

I'm guessing from your first post, you want to do a fresh install and blow everything on both partitions.
You have a couple of ways to do this,,,,,,,,,,,,

>1 boot with the xp cd. It should detect the existing partions and ask you where you want to install xp at which point you can select the first partition C: , it should then ask you if you want to format, keep intact etc. Select format, and whatever format you want ntfs quick, fat32 blah blah. Then let the install complete.
Once XP is installed, reboot etc. you can then go thru the Administrative tools | disk management | and select the other partition D: and format.

>2 boot with the xp cd. Delete all partitions, create a partition for C: (leaving space for another partition) and format, finish XP install - reboot blah blah. After XP boots from the fresh install, Administrative Tools | Disk Managment | - create a new partition from the free space | assign drive letter | format

[stool]

To clean the disk up, I'd say option 2 is the better choice.

[drenader]

thanks i got it, did a reformat that i found in the harddrive section and then installed windows on that since it forced me to. But it allowed me to format the other once that was loaded. Yeah it doesnt make sence to me either and i wrote this sorry.