Format system drive?

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I've been shuffling stuff around my hard drives so I can format the old windows installs from them that were just taking up space, and I couldn't delete them. So the easiest thing would just be to format them. But when I look at one of the drives in the computer management screen, its showing as 'System, Active and Primary partiton'.
Now, all my drives are primary partition so that's no problem, but I can't format it because its a system drive? What can I do to get rid of it so I can start dumping stuff back onto it?

Thanks!
 
Nope, I'm running windows 7 on the C:\
I'll screenshot for ease:
drives2.jpg


C: has win 7 on, D: has XP, which I want to format, the E: was formatted yesterday, and the F and G: have vista on, but too much crud on them to move around and format them.
 
But the C: is listed as the boot drive?

That said, something I did notice was that I used easyBCD to clear up my bootup list before installing 7, so it just booted right to vista and the other installs didn't show up, and it was fine. But after installing 7 I'm getting the choice between that, the Vista install I was on before, and the 'older version of windows' which I'm assuming is XP, so there must be something there to bring that back, but not the other vista drive I don't use any more.

Anyway, if it is something being stored on that drive, how do I transfer it over? There's got to be a way, I don't want to be stuck with an unformattable drive XD
 
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