Computer has two drives. Drive c: went bad so I installed a new drive.
Apparently I had left an old install of windows on the slave drive.
Of course I didn't think of unplugging the slave drive so the new
installation went to drive F. First available drive letter. So
I unplugged the slave and tried to format and reinstall. It wouldn't
let me delete the partition, said it contained setup files needed for
installation. How do format and reinstall so OS is on C: ? Just booting
from the CD with the one drive attached didn't work.

gls858

gls858 wrote:
> Computer has two drives. Drive c: went bad so I installed a new drive.
> Apparently I had left an old install of windows on the slave drive.
> Of course I didn't think of unplugging the slave drive so the new
> installation went to drive F. First available drive letter. So
> I unplugged the slave and tried to format and reinstall. It wouldn't
> let me delete the partition, said it contained setup files needed for
> installation. How do format and reinstall so OS is on C: ? Just booting
> from the CD with the one drive attached didn't work.
>
> gls858
>
I think I figured it out. I'll post back if it doesn't work.

gls858