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I just can't seem to format my C drive when trying to re install XP. i have 4 drives when placing the xp cd into the computer i accidently installed it on my 4th drive D now i cant format the original 1st drive C that i want to run the os on? i removed all hard drives now leaving the one i want to install on and still not letting me delete or format, very confused now?

any help greatly appreciated

what brand hard drive is it

seagate

should be able to format it.

What is xp telling you when you try it there

it tells me there are important files on it so it just installs xp on top of it, will try seatools could you also give me the name of the tool for western digital as iv had to install the os on this drive so that i can format the seagate seperately and will format the wd when done

for that you will need to go , find your drive in the list and download data lifeguard tools. They offer another program called data lifeguard diagnostics that will test the drives integrity and write zeros to it but the "tools" will create, remove, format partitions.

thanks liljim