i had windows xp pro before and i had my c drive cleaned out and windows 7 starter installed by someone. it never worked good since then. after much frustration now i want to remove windows 7 starter and reinstall xp pro. is there any way i can perform thsi myself.
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View 3 Replies View RelatedMy system got infected with some kind of virus, which severely slowed down the PC and caused me a lot of frustration. So I simply installed Win 7 on my H: drive. Now I want to completely format the C: drive, the location of the previous Win 7 install. During the install itself, for some reason there was no option to format the C: drive and re-install the windows there. And now that I'm trying to format C: drive, I get an error message: 'Windows was unable to complete the format'.
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i have a problem...
i have windows 7 installed on E drive and my C drive contains old vista...
now i want to delete vista and want to format c drive.
when i start Windows 7 and try to format C drive by right clicking on it, it says "windows was unable to complete the format"
please help me, i want to format it, i need some space in my pc urgently
make sure that my dvd drive is not working
I m facing a problem that my pen drive is not working because it is read only i m changing it from property but again it change in read only.
View 1 Replies View RelatedWhen I try to access drive D it says this "you need to format the disk in drive d before you can use it". I don't even know whats in Drive D, my computer is new. But when I right click properties for used space it says 0 bytes and free space 0 bytes. But it still says its full. [URL]. After I press cancel [URL]. Drive Space [URL]. What should I do?
View 14 Replies View RelatedI have 2 format programs recommended by GEEK, easus and mini tool partition...they will not allow me to do partition...The disk layout is C: system and files D: hp recovery data E:hp files...When I start I can do resize and get an allocated file, then on the allocated file I click create and then I get message this is not a primary, and I cannot find a way to change it....and if I use the other program(mini) it says there is no boot files.
View 9 Replies View RelatedEvery 5 minutes or so , a pop up saying "You need to format the disk in drive g before you can use it" comes up. Problem is, I have no disk in drive g, and nothing connected to my usb ports. So i have no idea what this means. Add to this that the device manager keeps refreshing and will not let me click anything.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have a customer's laptop that will not start. Upon start up, it looks like bootmgr is corrupted or missing. I have managed to boot using a Windows 7 disc and get into the CMD promt. However, when I try to run "diskpart" it just gets stuck and will not give me a prompt to start erasing/formatting the drive(s). I have tried re-installing Win7, as well as tried repairing so that I could roll back the drive, and none of those work. This is an HP G72 laptop (Win7 - Core I-3).
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View 4 Replies View Relatedinstalling build 7264.
mounted the ISO in magic disk and did custom installation.
the only options is load driver and i see the partition but i can't format it.
what to do?
i have 3 partition in my pc...
C drive contains vista home basic...D drive contains some data and E drive contains new Windows 7 7260
now...i am not using vista anymore..so can i format my c drive directly...
and one more thing..i have lenovo y510 laptop...and it has a one key recovery option...so if i format my c drive....will i be able to use that one key recovery feature in future ???
and apart from 3 partition...i have one more partition which is hidden...in computer management tool...it shows "OEM".
so what do you say ??? is it safe to format my C drive now to get more hdd space ??? but please...i should be able to use "one key recovery".
How do i format system drive, from windows?
can i use command prompt?
I am getting this popup: "You need to format the disk in drive x before you can use it". In my case it's drive H:. I have unchecked "Use AutoPlay for all media and devices" in the Control Panel. I did this a week ago when I started getting these popups and it seemed to work till today when it all started up again. I just noticed that the popup is not appearing, but the drive is appearing and disappearing from my file manager (I use Q-dir).
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