Okay, so I wanted to reformat both my boot drive and my storage drive, and I just used Partition Magic to erase the partitions on my storage drive, and I put in the XP Pro disc and went to full install and checked the box about letting the user select the partitions, but it wouldn't let me delete the boot disk partition, saying that files were copied to it that were necessary for the installation of the OS.
Now what I don't get is I figured okay, I'll let it finish this first install of Windows and then I'll reformat it after that and go directly from the CD so I can delete the partition. However, it just keeps booting up Windows now, instead of letting me boot from the disc and delete the partition. Please help me out, as this is really frustrating.
Now what I don't get is I figured okay, I'll let it finish this first install of Windows and then I'll reformat it after that and go directly from the CD so I can delete the partition. However, it just keeps booting up Windows now, instead of letting me boot from the disc and delete the partition. Please help me out, as this is really frustrating.