Don't laugh at me please!

[hispandora]

Okay I know this is probably a stupid question but I have one HD in my machine that came with three partitions on it.

The first partition is some little tiny space that doesn't show up when you boot up but shows up on when you do the OS install called Recovery-OEM

The second is aprox 40GB space partitioned off as D:

The third is the main partition about 555GB space partitioned off as C:

When I was having problems with the Windows 7 install the MS Tech had me try installing it on the D: Partition. Now that I have Windows 7 working on the C: Partition I want to know if I can format the D: Partition to get rid of those non working windows files off the drive.

If I right click on the D: Drive and go to Format I have an option to Format the D: Drive but it gives me a sort of scary and intimidating message about the ENTIRE drive being formatted and data lost. Formatting the D: Drive wont effect the C: Partition at all will it?

 

[blackroseMD1]

No...as long as you make sure it is the D: partition that you are formatting, it won't effect the C: partition at all.

 

[pillainp]

@hispandora:

That tiny partition (100mb?) is the system recovery partition that Win7 automatically creates on install.

You can safely format D:. providing all the data that you require is on C:.

If you are running Windows off C:, formatting D: will not harm Windows. That scary message is just a warning, an opportunity to rethink your decision to format and to ensure that all the essential data on the drive has been moved elsewhere.

 

[DocBrown]

Okay I know this is probably a stupid question but I have one HD in my machine that came with three partitions on it.

The first partition is some little tiny space that doesn't show up when you boot up but shows up on when you do the OS install called Recovery-OEM

The second is aprox 40GB space partitioned off as D:

The third is the main partition about 555GB space partitioned off as C:

When I was having problems with the Windows 7 install the MS Tech had me try installing it on the D: Partition. Now that I have Windows 7 working on the C: Partition I want to know if I can format the D: Partition to get rid of those non working windows files off the drive.

If I right click on the D: Drive and go to Format I have an option to Format the D: Drive but it gives me a sort of scary and intimidating message about the ENTIRE drive being formatted and data lost. Formatting the D: Drive wont effect the C: Partition at all will it?

Can you give us a screen shot of your HD in disk Management ?

 

[hispandora]

Sure! Here is a SS of my Disk Managment

C: Is my main drive of course
D: Is that partition I want to reformat
L: Is my Ready Boost Drive
J: Is my External HD that I save most my data on

 

[Arr0w000]

This may be offtopic, but do you see a difference using ready boost?

 

[howiewho]

Okay I know this is probably a stupid question but I have one HD in my machine that came with three partitions on it.

The first partition is some little tiny space that doesn't show up when you boot up but shows up on when you do the OS install called Recovery-OEM

The second is aprox 40GB space partitioned off as D:

The third is the main partition about 555GB space partitioned off as C:

When I was having problems with the Windows 7 install the MS Tech had me try installing it on the D: Partition. Now that I have Windows 7 working on the C: Partition I want to know if I can format the D: Partition to get rid of those non working windows files off the drive.

If I right click on the D: Drive and go to Format I have an option to Format the D: Drive but it gives me a sort of scary and intimidating message about the ENTIRE drive being formatted and data lost. Formatting the D: Drive wont effect the C: Partition at all will it?

Many computers today has the recover software on drive d., the small partion to do the restore.

 

[hispandora]

To be honest I couldn't tell you. My last system had a ready boost drive on it from the first time I started using it because the guy that built it put one on there, so I just moved it from that system to this one. So it's just sort of been something that is always there

 

[DocBrown]

Okay I know this is probably a stupid question but I have one HD in my machine that came with three partitions on it.

The first partition is some little tiny space that doesn't show up when you boot up but shows up on when you do the OS install called Recovery-OEM

The second is aprox 40GB space partitioned off as D:

The third is the main partition about 555GB space partitioned off as C:

When I was having problems with the Windows 7 install the MS Tech had me try installing it on the D: Partition. Now that I have Windows 7 working on the C: Partition I want to know if I can format the D: Partition to get rid of those non working windows files off the drive.

If I right click on the D: Drive and go to Format I have an option to Format the D: Drive but it gives me a sort of scary and intimidating message about the ENTIRE drive being formatted and data lost. Formatting the D: Drive wont effect the C: Partition at all will it?

When the MS Tech had you install win7 on "D" * Could the new running win7 be seeing itself as "C" ? Have you looked at properties with win7 running to see the drive letters & their corresponding sizes. What OS was on before you installed win7 ?

" Doc "

 

[ignatzatsonic]

That's an odd looking disk management screen shot.

I would expect to see a display of C and D somewhere in the lower portion, not just the listing at the top.

 

[zrtom]

That's an odd looking disk management screen shot.

I would expect to see a display of C and D somewhere in the lower portion, not just the listing at the top.

C and D are probably present in the lower portion of the screen (the slider is down at the bottom).

As for formatting...if you tell it to format the D: partition it will just format D: partition. You probably got this message:


where "Disk" means the partition, not the whole "Drive."