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can not format a drive or change the drive letter
Hello,
I have a vista box with a couple of partitions.
I am trying to create a dual boot with linux in the second partition (this partitiion used to be XP)
but when i try to format or remove this partition is get the error
"Windows cannot format the System partition on this disk"
attached is what the disk manager looks like
So does anyone have any ideas?
Thanks
Randy
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I have a vista box with a couple of partitions.
I am trying to create a dual boot with linux in the second partition (this partitiion used to be XP)
but when i try to format or remove this partition is get the error
"Windows cannot format the System partition on this disk"
attached is what the disk manager looks like
So does anyone have any ideas?
Thanks
Randy
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i used EasyBCD and it hosed by MBR.
It was ugly , but i finally fixed it by installing XP (vista would not even install anymore after easyBCD)
then upgraded from XP to vista
purchased VistaBootPR, add eded the old vista as an option
took two days to get back to where i was
I hate vista
It was ugly , but i finally fixed it by installing XP (vista would not even install anymore after easyBCD)
then upgraded from XP to vista
purchased VistaBootPR, add eded the old vista as an option
took two days to get back to where i was
I hate vista
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Do you know why it is labeled as a System disk?
there is nothing on it anymore
(except one file I can not delete (this is another proble0
D:\WINDOWS\system32\Macrom
when i tri to delete it it says i do not have the permission
My main concern is for some reason i hose my vista because it says it is a system disk. I am just a little paranid
thanks for the help
Randy