Re: Deleting Partitions and Formatting HDD

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From: Richard Urban (richardurbanREMOVETHIS_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 07/10/04 

Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 01:33:59 -0400

Using the W.D. utility may well be the cause of you problem as Windows XP
does not really like drive overlay utility type of partitioning. 

-- 
Regards:
Richard Urban
aka  Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)
"Ameer K." <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:299b401c46567$e7086360$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> Ive been facing a hard disk boot problem for about a week
> now, where i cant boot to my HDD because of a disk boot
> failure. Ive decided to just format my HDD and start
> over. Im using XP professional and I have my HDD
> partitioned into 3 (one primary and two logical) and I
> did this using the Western Digital software that came
> with my HDD. However, Im alittle new to working with
> partitions. My question is how do I correctly go about
> clearing my HDD? Im not concerend about backing up
> anything becuase besides the operating system my HDD is
> basically blank. Do I first delete the two logical
> partitions and the extended parition using disk
> management in XP? Then how do i delete the final primary
> partition? Can I do this through windows or must I boot
> using the XP CD and follow some instruction through
> there? Must I format the HDD even after deleting all the
> partitions? And finally, after everything has been
> deleted and im installing windows again, do you
> recommmend I configure my HDD's partitions through the
> windows installlation or through the western digital
> software? Thanks alot.
>
> Ameeer

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