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reformatting C drive

by Asterion1010 Feb 13, 2009 6:42AM PST

I run into a problem reformatting my C Drive. I own a Dell and have window 2000 Professional installed. I am trying to partition my hard drive and I am not getting anywhere. At the moment I have both, windows 2000 and XP Pro installed. 2000 lets me get on the internet if I choose it and XP Pro does not.

All I actually need to know is how to partition the C Drive. It will not let me do it in FAT32.

Carla

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Re: formatting
by Kees Bakker Feb 13, 2009 6:47AM PST

You don't format a (hard) drive. You format a partition. But, indeed, once it is formatted is often is called c-drive or d-drive.
You partition a hard drive indeed. But a hard drive doesn't have a drive letter, so you can't partition the c:drive.

Maybe tell more:
- how many physical drives
- how many partitions on it
- which partition contains 2000 (and how is it formatted), which contains XP (and how is formatted)
- what is the final situation you want to reach
- how do you try to do it now

Kees

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Thanks for your reply
by Asterion1010 Feb 13, 2009 9:25AM PST

Just wanting to thank you for replying so quickly but your answer did not fill my need.

I am going to have my husband, who knows much more about computers and also knows how to program in DOS post a more precise question.

Carla

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That's OK.
by Kees Bakker Feb 13, 2009 10:27PM PST

I'm sure we can help once the problem is clear. And - somehow - you didn't make it clear enough, for me anyway.

Kees

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