Deleting System Partition??

[Guest_imported]

I installed a new hard drive and set up a dualboot with XP on both drives, but after making the new drive the master and boot partition, I want to reformat my old drive. Problem is that its the system partition...How can i fix this?

THX!

 

[buffbaddude]

can u just make the other partition active. bootup to the new drive the go to administrative tools then computer management, the old drive should showup, try to format it there if not then bootup with floppy. fdisk

 

[linney]

If you have XP in two seperate partitions can you use the "to keep" XP to delete the other version of XP and any other files you want to get rid of, after all this is mainly what a reformat does anyway. You can even use Convert.exe to change FAT32 to NTFS if you want.

The recovery console has commands for Boot Configuration and other related issues (Bootcfg, Fixboot and Fixmbr).

For a general read on your problem this might be of interest.

http://groups.google.com/groups?sourceid=navclient&q="system+partition"+format+dual+windows+xp

You always have the option to scrub the lot and just install one copy of XP after reformatting both drives.