I would not delete the partition unless I was creating space to merge with
another partition, and that can be dicey. I would do a full format on the
partition and let it go at that.

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"firewire" wrote in message
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Hi Colin
Ricer46
Thanks for your reply. I have to be a little repetitive so that I'm sure I
understand, so bear with me. 1) if I delete the E:/ partition can I then
proceed to create a new E:/ with out having to reformat C:/ and do I start
the process of size again? 2) when one formats a partition there a
choices:
quick format or long format and cluster size; do you have any suggestions?
3)
since last we spoke: CHKDSK for C:/: "Volume Clean"; WD diagnostic (for
(1)
physical disk)test/repair: damaged sectors but repairable, passed test 4)
can
one CHKDSK a none formatted partition (I've tried, no luck)? 5) have you
heard in the PC community that using: Lavasoft-Ad-aware,
Spybot-search&destroy, Spy Doctor or SpyBlaster have harmed Hard Drives? I
appreciate all the help I can get, thanks again.
PS I would like to format the E:/ partition but a little gun shy

On Saturday, February 26, 2005 at 1:44 pm, Ricer46 wrote:
Just deleting E: would throw away all that disk space. To combine it into
one partition
(not the best option) you'd have to re-install.



"Colin Barnhorst" wrote:

Reformatting the drive cannot affect Windows. The drive may be bad. Is
it
an external or internal drive?

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"firewire" wrote in message
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Hi
I had a C:/Drive, E:/ Logical drive/partion; the E:/ crashed (for what
reason I know not why; I did a nornal shutdown and when I rebotted it
was
gone) I tried to reformat (long) and after reformatting to 100% it
produced
an error message: could not complete reformat. I proceeded to do a
quick
reformat and received the blue screen of death! My C:/ lost no data and
works
fine. My question is: is there a way to check whats wrong with the E:/
so
I
can reformat it and if I delete the E:/ do I have to reinstall XP and
do a
reformat of the C:/? When I checked the disk management screen (just
after
the crash) it showed the C:/ & E:/ as being healthy as it does
now--whats
with this? XP home, 120 GB HD, 516 MB ROm the system has been up 1.5
years
and never had a problem. Any suggestions? Thanks for your help.