format

croggy · 16 Jun 2009 at 13:31

I added an extra drive to my dell XPS m1730 laptop. A OCZ vertex 30gb. I installed win 7 on the new drive. I want to format my old 200gb harddrive but it won't let me in the disk management. Will i need to use dos to format the hdd or some other program? freeware?

Thanks

croggy · 16 Jun 2009 at 13:36

I put the new drive as my main drive and my old drive is my second drive

croggy · 16 Jun 2009 at 13:43

the new drive is C:, the old one is D:, the new drive has windows 7 and boots fine from it, the old drive has vista on it, everytime the computer boots it asks which os to boot, vista or 7. Disk management reconises the D: as a system disk and doesn't allow to format and not to delete oem partitions on it, i want the drive to be formatted partitions and all. I just wondered how to go about it.

Thanks

croggy · 16 Jun 2009 at 13:57

Ahh ok that makes sense. Will Gparted not work without me reinstalling windows 7? Could i connect it to my main computer and format it?

croggy · 16 Jun 2009 at 13:59

How do i do that? or is it just easier to reinstall windows 7?