Thread: Disk management
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Old 04-29-2008   #3 (permalink)
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Re: Disk management

On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 02:58:21 -0500, "philo" <philo@xxxxxx> wrote:
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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
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>You can't wipe it out as your "boot" files are located there
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OK I see from VistaBootPro that the boot manager is still on the C
drive. Does anyone have any guidance on how to move the boot manager
to my Vista drive?
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