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re: Windows XP -formatting C Drive problem
Tuesday, October 21, 2003 at 5:16 am
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Posted by Crash Override (2148 messages posted)


The C drive contains the boot files for the OS. Even though you have XP installed on E, it still uses c, for the boot.ini and ntldr files.


On Tuesday, October 21, 2003 at 12:40 am, Manoj wrote:
>Hi all,
>My problem is regarding formatting C: drive on my windows xp machine.
>I have two partitions C and E.
>Both contains a version of Windows XP.The one that is in C is not working.I want
>to format my C drive and install linux.
>I tried to format C drive.But i am getting messages like
>System partition is not allowed to format.
>What should i do? Kindly suggest..
>Manoj
>
>


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Windows XP -formatting C Drive problem (Manoj: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 at 12:40 am)

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-Windows XP -formatting C Drive problem (Manoj: Tue, Oct 21, 2003, 12:40 am)
*re: Windows XP -formatting C Drive problem (Andy: Tue, Oct 21, 2003, 2:10 am)
*re: Windows XP -formatting C Drive problem (Crash Override: Tue, Oct 21, 2003, 5:16 am)
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