How To Format A HDD (removing Os Too)
Dec 30, 2012I've tried using the command prompt which then said I needed to run in elevated mode so I ran as administrator and it then said can't be formatted because of the partition?
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The problem pops up when I went back to reformat the old partition. It gave me an error stating that it cannot format a system drive. I figure that this is because the old partition is still active somehow even though I removed it from the msconfig boot menu.
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