<kent@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:2ltc14d23mf55ut95pa73dpe41vkbpb2qk@xxxxxx
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> I have my old XP load on my C drive and Vista on the D drive. I'm
> ready to wipe out XP (I know lots of folks would go the other way) so
> I can create a mirror copy of Vista for fault tolerance. Before I
> enable RAID in the firmware, I'm thinking I need to format the C
> drive. However the Disk Management utility has the format command
> grayed out for the C drive. It shows up as:
>
> Disk 0: C: NTFS, Healthy (System, Active, Primary Partition)
>
> My D drive is:
>
> Disk 2: D: NTFS, Healthy (Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary
> Partition)
>
> What is the proper way to wipe out C so I can create my RAID mirror?
>
> Thanks,
> Kent
You can't wipe it out as your "boot" files are located there