Recently I got a new 120 GB hard drive as a gift from X-mas. This hard drive would act as a slave in addition to my current 40 GB HDD. So I install it, set it up all properly, and boot my computer. To my confusion, the drive wasnt showing up in My Computer. After some thought, I realized I needed to format it to NTFS. The only way I knew how to do this was to pop in my winXP CD, and format it in the windows install, the only problem is, I didnt want a second copy of winXP installed on my second hard drive. I only want to have one OS. So I go ahead and format the drive, but when it starts to try and install winXP I try to stop the installation by restarting the computer. But the installing keeps trying to start, no matter what I did. Until finally I realise, now that the hard drive shows up in my computer, I can format it through windows, and everything will be peachy, right? Wrong, I boot up in safemode, then let it go and format, when it's done, I go to inspect the contents of the hard drive, and to my amazement, the windows files are still there. Forgot to mention this was after I had tried to fix the problem of the second installation with no files trying to start an operating system, so I figured If I actually installed windows in the full, it could just as easily remove it.
Well, anyways, what I am trying to do here is completely reformat my hard drive without having to go through the windows setup process. Any help provided would be greatly appreciated.
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2003-12-29, 03:29 AM
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