[cossie2k]

Hi all!

Im new here but please bear with me!!

Ok I hope you all have your blankets and hot chocolate because its time for a story.....

Not long after installing Vista my harddrive died. Not the end of the world so I installed Vista on to the spare drive in my computer (an old IDE). I then bought a new drive to replace the one that fried. I installed Vista on to the new Sata drive with a view to removing Vista from the IDE drive.

However, I cannot figure out how to remove Vista from the IDE drive as all formatting techniques that I have tried have failed.

Heres where you (hopefully!!) come in....

How can I get rid of Vista from my IDE drive?? I have founds loads of posts re dual boot and re-installing XP but none with regards to my issue.

P.s Im not great with the technicals of computers so Im afraid you will have to spell it out!!

Thanks for any help!

Alex

[unbidden]

If the IDE drive is slaved, have you tried disk management?

Click the start orb - type diskmgmt.msc

[cossie2k]

Hi thanks for the quick reply.

Sorry but how do you check if it a slave?

It is down as 'Disk 0' is disk management and contains system files apparently. It will not let me format though.

[Rich-M]

Sounds like you are still booting to the ide drive. Pull the drive and make sure that it is jumpered slave and whatever else on the drive is jumpered master.Diagram is on top of most drives and see url at bottom here. Then you should be able to do it in disk management.
You also need to enter the bios and make sure the boot drive is the sata drive.
"Del" tapped after pushing power button does it for most or f2 or f1 .
http://www.pcguide.com/byop/byop_Set...iveJumpers.htm