sorry, when I tried formatting in explorer, it was after I installed windows on my other hard drive(f
, and I was totally out of the Windows xp instalation program thinky(excuse my lack of nomenclature).
anyways thanks for the advise, I will try all these things. Basically all I want to do is format c:. I have windows insatalled on my other drive and I just want to have a clean drive to install all of my games.