help formatting a drive

Walsandrew · 2 Jan 2011 at 21:11

hi. i hope this wouldn't have been better placed elsewhere but i was asking in the windows software section and getting no responses there so i am sure someone here can help. recently purchased a prebuilt system from ocuk with an ssd. foolishly when i went to install win7 however, i installed on the other hard drive and not the ssd. so now i need to format this drive however when i go onto computer management and attemp to format, the option isn't available for this drive (c drive), meanwhile it is available for other drives including thee sdd which i haven't even used yet.. :confused:

can anyone help me out, let me know where i might be going wrong?

Walsandrew · 2 Jan 2011 at 21:18

damn, seems so obvious now!

thanks guys.

Walsandrew · 2 Jan 2011 at 21:26

truly i am useless. right so i tried just reinstalling from the disk whilst in win 7 and on the desktop. error message. i tried booting from bios, and the only options are to start in windows 7, repair computer, safe mode etc etc. thoughts?

Walsandrew · 2 Jan 2011 at 21:36

how do i select my opticial/dvd drive as boot device number 1? i can't seem to see any option to select this..

Walsandrew · 2 Jan 2011 at 22:01

would you laugh if i said i was confusing bios with boot manager? might explain a lot

anyway, sorry to keep pestering you with this stuff but you're a great help as are the others. i am now on the screen where i have the option to choose which disk i want to install on, as well formatting the c drive. but i was just wondering, when setting everything up would the guys at ocuk have possibly installed drivers on this disk which i would now lose? or would these have been installed elsewhere? no space is taken up on the ssd, and there is a 3rd disk called partition 1: system reserved; my guess (probably wrong) is that they would be on there? just want to be sure though..

Walsandrew · 2 Jan 2011 at 22:24

haha, i bet not as many times as me

stulid, the pc came with the discs for my mobo and graphics cards. but the guy at ocuk said all the drivers should be installed already. you think they would have been on the c drive? obviously no harm in just putting the discs in once i finally get win7 installed on the right drive!

Walsandrew · 2 Jan 2011 at 22:29

..waves. ok, thanks mate.

Walsandrew · 2 Jan 2011 at 23:44

all sorted now. thanks for all the help guys. but one final thing, i have installed all the drivers which were on my mobo disk and my graphics card disk. are these all the 'essential' drivers that i need? and where can i check that they are all installed and working properly?