Need help formatting partitions. (1 Viewer)

[absolution*]

Ok. So i have windows installed on c: (20gig) and i have a mainly storage drive d: (60 gig) on a separate partition of my 80 gig HD. How can i format or reinstall windows on my c: partition, (which is causing me trouble) without wiping out my d: partition.

 

[sunny]

If you are using WinXP, and you have the original WinXP bootable CD, when you reinstall Windows you'll be given the choice of which partition to install to. Your D: will be left untouched.

 

[absolution*]

by bootable cd do you mean the installation cd? because ive tried that and all it didnt work. it just reinstalled windows and made a mess of my files.

 

[fatmuscle]

i thought that's what you wanted to do?
format your drive to re-install windows?

What Sunny said was exactly the answer to your original post.

 

[sunny]

Was this CD given to you when you bought your computer? Is it an original Microsoft Windows CD or a recovery disc from the computer manufacturer?

 

[CrashOveride]

or use fdisk if you have a dos boot disk

 

[seremify007]

There should be an option (when installing Windows XP through boot) to Erase the partition before Installing Windows XP onto it. make sure you don't select "repair"- you want to do a clean install.