Formatting Help Needed!!!!!

[Wiggins]

HI

Since the weekend I have had Vista Ultimate installed on my new hard drive and I have decided now that its safe to get rid of my XP Pro that I have installed on a seperate Sata drive. I was dual booting.

I would like to now format the drive that has xp on as I shall use it for back ups, music, videos etc.....

I have tried to format the xp drive in vista but it doesnt let me. This leads me to believe I will probably need to be in some kind of dos mode to do this but unsure which route to take.

Do I boot the XP Disk and go to the repair in dos mode, pull up the drive letter that has XP on it and format then?

Your help will be appreciated

 

[Wiggins]

Try it in safe mode before you try the recovery console.

Burnsy

OK, will do.

Ta

 

[Wiggins]

Try it in safe mode before you try the recovery console.

Burnsy

Safe mode did not work.

I did notice that when I installed Vista on the second hard drive that it added a bootsect.bat file on the XP Drive.

I can only assume this is for Vista to see that it dual boots.

If I use the recovery console will I then have to put the Vista disk in and repair the boot sector?

Edit: I dont want to loose Vista with formatting wrongly.

 

[Wiggins]

Thanks for your help guys, I sorted it

I ran the recovery console from the Vista DVD and opened CMD from it.

I then dismounted the drive that had XP on and formatted. I then rebooted back into Vista's Recovery Console again and selected 'fix boot'.

It booted straight back into vista and it remounted the drive automatically

Jobs a good un!!!!!!!