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snackman
January 19th, 2007, 15:35
when i have a secondary hard drive can i erase everything on it even windows?
Decker
January 19th, 2007, 17:08
As long as it's not the boot drive/OS running from it and you don't need anything off it then yes.
m6747
January 23rd, 2007, 18:51
Don't do an erase... do a format. Right click on the drive from my computer.
digital_tyranno
January 29th, 2007, 02:53
Try 'hiding' the partition in something like partition magic and see if your PC still boots up.

Before you do this make sure you have some means of running partition magic from either floppies or a bootable cd/dvd, incase you need to unhide it.

I recently had to fix a PC which was booting from the D: drive and it had Windows on both the C: and D: drives.
Decker
January 29th, 2007, 05:13
What? The machine boots it's a drive problem not OS.


I recently had to fix a PC which was booting from the D: drive and it had Windows on both the C: and D: drives.
- Open boot.ini and change it to the right one then. Make sure it's on the one with the active boot partition too.
pce
January 29th, 2007, 23:52
you can boot on USB or Cd-rom
themoose
February 3rd, 2007, 14:11
Only a few motherboards can boot from USB.