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1111912	2010-06-21 00:30:00	Can anyone tell me how to format C:. Windows 7 I'm getting close to throwing my computer out the window. Jack	JJJJJ (528)
1111913	2010-06-21 00:33:00	You can format C: using the Win 7 CD. Boot off the CD. Do you want to re install Win 7 or another O/S?	Sweep (90)
1111914	2010-06-21 00:48:00	I'm getting close to throwing my computer out the window. Jack Why? Whats the problem, a reinstall is a bit drastic.	pctek (84)
1111915	2010-06-21 01:10:00	I'm hoping to be standing under the window when it comes out. A very good rig I think. :-)	Sweep (90)
1111916	2010-06-21 01:28:00	I'm hoping to be standing under the window when it comes out. A very good rig I think. :-) ... and a good brick indeed.	Renmoo (66)
1111917	2010-06-21 01:45:00	Meh if you really want to just right click computer, select manage, go down to disk management, righ click your C drive and and accompyning partitions and click format... providing of course you don't want to reinstall win7	GreacherTech (15784)
1111918	2010-06-21 01:50:00	Meh if you really want to just right click computer, select manage, go down to disk management, righ click your C drive and and accompyning partitions and click format... providing of course you don't want to reinstall win7 Did you try this? Formatting C: is not an option available using the method you describe!	Sweep (90)
1111919	2010-06-21 01:54:00	If you want to install Windows on Drive C, or even just format it you can do the following: Boot from the Windows DVD (Answer any setting it asks for, regional etc) Click on Install Keep going till it gives you the option Upgrade or Custom,if its a OEM DVD Upgrade will be grayed out. Select Custom (regardless if Upgrade is available or not) To format any drive, on the right bottom, select Drive options(advanced) Select the drive you want, under the drives window will be various options you can select. Select the one you want and follow on screen instructions.	wainuitech (129)
1111920	2010-06-30 22:49:00	Thanks to all those who replied. I'm afraid none of the suggestions worked. Win 7 does not give the option to format. It just gives the choice of where you want to install it. If you install it on another drive, the original C: partition can then be removed. The only satisfactory solution I found was to do a boot/ instal useing windows XP. XP gives you the option to choose the drive and format it. So I formatted the drive with xp and when it reached 100% I removed the XP disk and rebooted from the win 7 disk. This worked! The reason I wanted to re-format. I have a 300 gig SSD disk partitioned into two drives , C: and D: and also a 300 gig Velociraptor, E: which is used for backups and installing Beta programs. One morning I started my computer and it refused to boot. I managed to boot from my win 7 disk. I then discovered that while my three drives were still intact the contents of all three were not. C: was full. D: was partly full and E: was completely empty. The jumbled drives were completely illogocal. Parts of windows were spread over C: and D: I wasn't going to even try and sort them out. Anyway I got everything installed and working again.. Including 15 gigs of downloads! Twenty four hours later I noticed that FSX, on D: , was getting very slow in loading. On checking I found some FSX files were in C: I managed to drag them back where they belonged. Now two weeks later I have had no further problems. The only explanations I have had: SSD drives don't like being partitioned. FSX was written for 32 bit not 64 bit. I have had this computer for about a year and it has given no trouble, so I don't think either of these reasons is relevant. The joys of computers!:badpc:	JJJJJ (528)
1111921	2010-06-30 23:42:00	Make an image of C: so next time you don't have to.	pctek (84)
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