Need to make HD inactive in XP

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Rock

HI,

I have XP Pro and my system is..

2 Disks C/E (C is active primary with XP) - D/F slave

DVD Burner + CD Burner

I have just got a Raid Controller sdo I can add another driver or 2 not
as Raid, but just as extra HD's.

I have the new HD on the card as a master and it is fine, I can see and
access all the file/dirs that I have on it which I will delete in a
format. It is an old Master drive which is set as 'Active'.

I want to make it inactive so I can refornat it NTFS using XP.

I get the message in XP when I try to format it that it is active and
blah blah..

Is there a way in XP to make it inactive before I format it?

Thanks
 
what do you mean by active?
and, one way to do it is just to boot from your XP CD. This gets around all
files being in use and that kind of thing. Just boot the XP CD and get to
the screen where it asks you which hard drive you want to install windows
on. Then pick the drive or partition you want, and delete it. Once it is
deleted (VERY important to make sure you pick the correct one) you can
reboot, take out the CD, and format it normally in XP.
hope this helps you.
Mike
 
well first check your drive letters and make sure it is
your second drive and not your OPsystem.If this is ok try
booting to A drive and use your fdisk to delete partitions.
 
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