On the basis that the contents of PARTITION C: are not wanted
(Note I am not indicating NOT NEEDED, but Not wanted by you)
Then you should really find out why it was not formatted!
Then you should indicate which partitions you are describing by giving their
location on the drive, type and settings:
Bootable, Active, Hidden, Primary, Extended, Secondary, FAT FAT32 NTFS etc.
Usually, the BIOS will look for the first Primary, Active partition on the
first drive it finds on the IDE connections - in the order primary
connection , master, and slave, then secondary channel, master and slave
It will then use the MBR on that drive to load the OS selection modules from
the appropriate partition, and you then get to select the OS to be initiated
from the presented list
Windows can allocate any of the 'storage' letters (c: through z:) to the
partitions as it goes,
and the windows instance started can have separate partitions for the mbr
indicated boot startup partition, the Windows OS code, the pagefile ( well
several partitions/drives for that) and the logged in user profile -
I've even seen the registry on a separate partition from the main OS code!
So it's not necessarily safe to do something that seems as simple as just
wiping a partition.
It could also be that the drive has virtual/embedded partitions on it -
That's where the partition table shows partitions to be within the area
allocated for other partitions - Virtual CD's and things like the 'DOS'
partition created by a run of Ghost 2003 that is to archive the OS
partition.
So - first please advise us ( The list members) of the actual partition
specifications
and check if there is a boot.ini on the D: drive.
And what does the 'Manage Storage' storage display report about the
partitions
Also - what partition amendment software do you have that does not rely on
your system booting
JimB
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