Problem with formatting/won't recognize C

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I'm trying to format my C drive (something I've done a million times before, so I know what I am doing.. But it's the first time on this computer), but once I reach the menu (after starting up the computer from CDrom), my C drive is NOT on the list. It does list my secondary harddrive as my C drive, strangely enough (I can tell it's not actually my C drive because of the size and brand name).

Then I tried just going into DOS with a startupdisk, and just typing format C.. but then it tells me invalid command/ C can't be detected.

Anyone know what's causing this and how I can solve it?

Thanks a lot for your help & time, very much appreciated!
 
I can't remember, but I don't think you can format a "drive" that's been partitioned in NTFS with Windows 2000/XP without deleting the partitions.

What version of Windows have you been running?
 
How many physical HDD's are on this system and how many partitions each drive ? ?
Post your drive layout and we can go further...
Also the file systems on each.

patio. :cool:
 
I might add that if your drive is a SATA drive, XP setup won't be able to see it unless you press F6 at the begining of setup and load the proper SATA driver from a floppy.
 
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