[RESOLVED] Format a Partitioned Hard Drive

Question....

Is it possible to reformat only a partitioned section of a hard drive instead of the whole thing?

Case in point; My hard drive is partitioned into C:, D:, and E: I have Win ME installed on the C: partition, programs on the D and MP3's on E. I only wish to reformat the C partition so that I can do a clean install of ME b/c I have been having some problems with it and I do not want to loose any of the information on my other partitions (namely the 4GB's of MP's).

I'm pretty sure that one can do this I just want to ask before I go ahead and do it.

Thanks for your help.

yes you can. I would make back-ups of mp3's though just to be safe.

Thanks Widget...I've already begun to do that and it'll take about 10 CD-RW's to get them all...oh well.

Thanks for the help

Just a heads up.

If you created the MP3's with Media Player 7 and you have license management on, you may want to be sure you have the license files or they will never play again.

same also applies to Real Jukebox.

Or better yet..convert em to regular old MP3 :D :D never have to worry about it again

Just a question... If you reinstall ME on the C: drive, if the programs had registry entries or other settings on drive C: won't you have to reinstall those? I know JFerragamo was mainly concerned with his mp3's, but I wouldn't be supprised if he would have to reinstal some of his programs.

[quote]Originally posted by apd183:
<strong>Just a question... If you reinstall ME on the C: drive, if the programs had registry entries or other settings on drive C: won't you have to reinstall those? I know JFerragamo was mainly concerned with his mp3's, but I wouldn't be supprised if he would have to reinstal some of his programs.</strong><hr></blockquote>

That is correct.

Any programs that are installed to another drive/partition seperate to the operating system, will have to be reinstalled because of the registry entries.

I know that I will have to reinstall all my programs again b/c the registry entries and .dll files will be erased from the C: partition. I'll just have to make due with what I have and uninstall all my programs before I reformat the C: partition.

I got all the disks and CD's for them and whatever ones I downloaded I saved to CD-RW's along with my MP3's, also some important e-mails with registration info.

I appreciate the input and feedback I'm getting in regards to this situation and thank you greatly.