Windows 7 Problems formatting HDD after windows 7 install

[VenomGTO]

Having multiple problems im trying to resolve after installing windows 7 pro. The back story is this computer had xp on an IDE harddrive. Then i wanted to upgrade my harddrive and windows os to windows 7, so I bought a sata 1tb hdd and got win7 and installed the hdd (while still using xp) then installed windows 7 to the new sata 1tb hdd. So I had the option once that was all done to either chose windows 7 os or an "older version" of windows on startup. I apparently dont have something right because when I try to format my c drive (which is the drive with windows xp) it says windows was unable to complete the format. It immediately says this after i click format. I tried manually deleting all the files (which probably wasn't a good idea) but there is still 16gig taken up on the c drive that had xp on it that i cant format, even though it now shows nothing on the hdd when i open it. And even though ive deleted all i can from my c drive that had xp it still gives me the option when i boot up to chose windows 7 or an older version of windows....Anyone know how i can fix this? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Edit: Finally found how to disable the multiple os option at startup by going into my computer -> properties -> advanced system settings -> startup and recovery settings and changed the time to display windows os to 0 seconds. I dunno if thats necessarily the best way but it worked! Still cant format my IDE (C) drive...

 

[zigzag3143]

Easy

Boot from your win 7 dvd (not restore must be win 7 ) while booting hit shift +F10 to open a command window. In the command window type format C:\ done.

Let us know if you need help


Ken J

 

[VenomGTO]

i did what you said and got this error

 

[Trouble]

It's possible that the backslash is not needed in the parameters. See attachment.
But please, please make sure that you in fact want to format C: use the dir command to examine the contents and make sure they are as you expect as various boot techniques may enumerate the drives in a different order then you expect.

 

[VenomGTO]

Yeah right after I posted that I thought the same thing and tried it and sure enough thats what it was (not needing the backslash). But what u said was also right because I deleted a file I needed apparently.. Now when I try to boot it won't and says BOOTMGR is missing! Man if it ain't one thing it's another! So do I have to repair windows 7 now or..??

 

[VenomGTO]

Also my drive I formatted was 1 in my bios boot priority, for some reason it wouldn't work if it was 2 even though my windows 7 wasn't on it, it was on priority 2 my 1tb hdd. So i tried to change the boot priority and get the same error that I did before I formatted my C drive. Which is " disk boot failure, insert system disk and press enter". Put the windows 7 disc in and hit enter and does the same thing.. What did I do wrong??

Edit: I CAN go boot options and load windows 7 disc from my cddrive to repair it if I need to. But at this point I'm gonna wait to do anything so i don't mess it up any more

 

[Trouble]

Give this a read and see if it helps, it's for Vista but the basics are the same.
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There are several users on this forum who are particularly skilled at resolving these types of issues, perhaps they will have some more insight for you.

 

[VenomGTO]

Yeah that was actually what i was in the process of doing but since I messed up earlier I figured I'd ask first! It worked though and all is well now AND my hdd is formatted! Thanks all for the help I REALLY appreciate it

 

[Trouble]

That is good news. Glad that you were able to resolve your problem. Thanks for posting back with the results. Hope to continue to see you around the forums.