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| Guest | Disk management 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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| Guest | Re: Disk management <kent@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:2ltc14d23mf55ut95pa73dpe41vkbpb2qk@xxxxxx Quote: > 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 |
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| Guest | Re: Disk management On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 02:58:21 -0500, "philo" <philo@xxxxxx> wrote: Quote: > ><kent@xxxxxx> wrote in message >news:2ltc14d23mf55ut95pa73dpe41vkbpb2qk@xxxxxx Quote: >> 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 > drive. Does anyone have any guidance on how to move the boot manager to my Vista drive? |
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| Guest | Re: Disk management On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:30:14 -0400, kent@xxxxxx wrote: Quote: >On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 02:58:21 -0500, "philo" <philo@xxxxxx> wrote: > Quote: >> >><kent@xxxxxx> wrote in message >>news:2ltc14d23mf55ut95pa73dpe41vkbpb2qk@xxxxxx Quote: >>> 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? active. Then remove Disk 0, configure your system so the BIOS boots from Disk 2, and follow steps 2 through 15 at <http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windows.vista.general/browse_thread/thread/a434fb8e883bfe76/e44fccdac924c871?hl=en&lnk=st&q=#e44fccdac924c871> Ignore any references to Windows XP. Quote: Quote: Quote: >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Kent >> >>You can't wipe it out as your "boot" files are located there >> >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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