I've just built a new pc and thought I would incorporate an old spare hard disk to use for storing accounts backups.
Pc is working fine except:
1) on start up it asks to chose wich operating system to use - it will not start of the old disk (Win ME) so the only option is the new disk (Win XP)
2) I've now spent several hours trying to format the old disk. I thought I had finally done it under the command prompt (format c: ) but at the end of the format it said that it had not formatted the system folder. Restart the pc and find that the contents of the disk are still there.
Any ideas how to format the disk? Presumably if the old operating system is erased then the choices will not be asked on start up?
Pc is working fine except:
1) on start up it asks to chose wich operating system to use - it will not start of the old disk (Win ME) so the only option is the new disk (Win XP)
2) I've now spent several hours trying to format the old disk. I thought I had finally done it under the command prompt (format c: ) but at the end of the format it said that it had not formatted the system folder. Restart the pc and find that the contents of the disk are still there.
Any ideas how to format the disk? Presumably if the old operating system is erased then the choices will not be asked on start up?
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