Format 2nd Drive Where Other Windows 7 Is Installed.

[rahulmukati]

Hello all,

Actually i have 2 HDD. In 1st HDD i have Windows XP and which i use. In 2nd i have Windows 7 which i use fairly. I switch between HDD whenever i want to use other windows.

But now I want to format 2nd drive and use it has additional HDD for storage in Windows XP.

How want to delete all files from 2nd HDD. How i do it? Anything with BIOS?

Because from windows i am trying to format but it says disk in use. Please help.

 

[USAFRet]

Hello all,

Actually i have 2 HDD. In 1st HDD i have Windows XP and which i use. In 2nd i have Windows 7 which i use fairly. I switch between HDD whenever i want to use other windows.

But now I want to format 2nd drive and use it has additional HDD for storage in Windows XP.

How want to delete all files from 2nd HDD. How i do it? Anything with BIOS?

Because from windows i am trying to format but it says disk in use. Please help.

First, you test.
Power off.
Remove the drive you wish to format. Physically disconnect the cables.
Does the system boot up?

 

[rahulmukati]

Hello all,

Actually i have 2 HDD. In 1st HDD i have Windows XP and which i use. In 2nd i have Windows 7 which i use fairly. I switch between HDD whenever i want to use other windows.

But now I want to format 2nd drive and use it has additional HDD for storage in Windows XP.

How want to delete all files from 2nd HDD. How i do it? Anything with BIOS?

Because from windows i am trying to format but it says disk in use. Please help.

First, you test.
Power off.
Remove the drive you wish to format. Physically disconnect the cables.
Does the system boot up?

Yes, it works if I physically remove 2nd disk. Because in disk 1 is currently primary and have Windows XP installed so I can work with Windows XP

 

[captaincharisma]

Hello all,

Actually i have 2 HDD. In 1st HDD i have Windows XP and which i use. In 2nd i have Windows 7 which i use fairly. I switch between HDD whenever i want to use other windows.

But now I want to format 2nd drive and use it has additional HDD for storage in Windows XP.

How want to delete all files from 2nd HDD. How i do it? Anything with BIOS?

Because from windows i am trying to format but it says disk in use. Please help.

First, you test.
Power off.
Remove the drive you wish to format. Physically disconnect the cables.
Does the system boot up?

this world be the safest way but if you have a way to tell the difference between each drive when you look at a list of the partitions on your computer you can just format the drive without disconnecting anything

 

[USAFRet]

Hello all,

Actually i have 2 HDD. In 1st HDD i have Windows XP and which i use. In 2nd i have Windows 7 which i use fairly. I switch between HDD whenever i want to use other windows.

But now I want to format 2nd drive and use it has additional HDD for storage in Windows XP.

How want to delete all files from 2nd HDD. How i do it? Anything with BIOS?

Because from windows i am trying to format but it says disk in use. Please help.

First, you test.
Power off.
Remove the drive you wish to format. Physically disconnect the cables.
Does the system boot up?

Yes, it works if I physically remove 2nd disk. Because in disk 1 is currently primary and have Windows XP installed so I can work with Windows XP

So one drive has Win 7, and one drive has XP?
And you wish to continue using XP? WHY?

 

[rahulmukati]

Hello all,

Actually i have 2 HDD. In 1st HDD i have Windows XP and which i use. In 2nd i have Windows 7 which i use fairly. I switch between HDD whenever i want to use other windows.

But now I want to format 2nd drive and use it has additional HDD for storage in Windows XP.

How want to delete all files from 2nd HDD. How i do it? Anything with BIOS?

Because from windows i am trying to format but it says disk in use. Please help.

First, you test.
Power off.
Remove the drive you wish to format. Physically disconnect the cables.
Does the system boot up?

this world be the safest way but if you have a way to tell the difference between each drive when you look at a list of the partitions on your computer you can just format the drive without disconnecting anything

Yes!!

I successfully formated 2nd disk.

Now I want to disconnect 1st disk and want to use 2nd disk as primary but in 2nd disk I want to install Ubuntu. Any solution?

How do I install Ubuntu on 2nd disk now? 2nd disk is totally empty.

 

[USAFRet]

this world be the safest way but if you have a way to tell the difference between each drive when you look at a list of the partitions on your computer you can just format the drive without disconnecting anything

I've seen people do it that way, and completely miss the existence of the boot partition on the drive to be formatted.
Oops...no boot for you.