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Formatting a System Drive

blahblah Registered User regular
edited January 2010 in Help / Advice Forum
I feel like this should be really easy to do, but I am having a bit of trouble with it. Google is being little help.

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I am trying to format my Z: drive so that I can strip it with D : . Because it's a system drive I can't do a thing. How do I go about getting rid of its system status? I have no idea why it's a system drive to begin with. There are no files on it, I've never installed an OS on it.

Cheers, Blah

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  • BeazleBeazle Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Does your system boot if the Z drive is not in it? Your boot sector could have been written to that drive even though the operating system is on the C drive. You may need to unhook the Z drive boot off your Windows cd rebuild the boot sector on the C drive, reconnect the Z drive then format it.

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  • PirateJonPirateJon Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    System partition: NTLDR, boot.ini, and such. That's what lets your system boot. But don't take my word for it...

    Check this thread out for some tips about moving that to another partition.

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  • BeazleBeazle Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    All these years I've had the terms flipped. Gotta love microsoft and their crazy logic.

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  • PirateJonPirateJon Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Beazle wrote: »
    All these years I've had the terms flipped. Gotta love microsoft and their crazy logic.

    No, you're right. Everyone else in the damn world does it the sane way. System OS files = system volume. Boot files = Boot volume. Microsoft are the only ones that flip it like that.

    The old joke:
    The only way microsoft could make a product that didn't suck is if they made a vacuum cleaner...

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