help formatting drive c on windows 7

you typed bcedit instead of bcdedit!!

Does system boot from win7 install DVD. just to check if it's booting

RICHO20 said:

what is exactly preventing me from deleting the windows 8 folder in Drive C?

and yes i tested it many time it boot perfectly

Please answer other questions first!!

Can't you delete C:\windows?? Maybe permissions on that folder, any error message?. But you want to delete whole C partition... isn't it? That's impossible now, because bootmanager and bootmenu is on it

First mark E active in disk management by right clicking on it and then "Mark Partition as Active".
A warning appears But press YES. System doesn't boot from harddisk then.
Then do a startup repair 3 times with reboots in between!

System Recovery Options option TWO
Startup Repair run it 3 times with reboots in between!
Startup Repair - Run 3 Separate Times
Read carefully.
System boots fine now from Harddisk and you can delete C partition.

RICHO20 said:

i want to leave drive c but format it ... not delete the whole partition just format

and here is the bcdedit.txt

Lots of vista or other windows stuff in bcd menu. Vven traces of winxp ;-)

Windows Legacy OS Loader
------------------------
identifier {ntldr}
device partition=C:
path \ntldr
description Earlier Version of Windows


But that's gone after the startup repair 3 times (rebuilds from scratch).

You can format C after all actions are complete

RICHO20 said:

I booted and tried to repair but it failed abd when i start the computer now it gives me bootmgr is missing? What should i do now?

Did you mark E active?
What happens exactly when you do a "startup repair"?