I searched around and found all sorts of hard and scary descriptions of how to fix this. I couldn't format D: because it was what I booted off of. Disk 1 - C: Drive with C:\windows and other booty.However, I'd installed Windows to the other drive and got myself into this situation: I checked my BIOs, and it turned out, in fact, that I had told it to boot of that drive. Yikes! See how my D: drive is Disk 0 and is marked as System, but my C: drive is Disk 1 and marked as Boot? That means that the Boot Configuration Data (BCD) is on my D: drive. I opened up Disk Management and it showed me this. I did this by changing the boot order in the BIOs.įast forward a bit, and today I wanted to format my DATA drive - my D: drive - and the format applet said "not so fast." This will likely be the death of me at some point.Īnyway, my system is a little non-standard and I had at some point a year ago switched hard drives around to make the faster one be my boot drive. I have a tendency to just Next>Next>Next>Finish my way through most wizards.
I went through the process, but wasn't really paying attention. I paved (reformatted and started over) my main machine, formerly named QUADPOWER, now QUADPOWER7 to use the new Windows 7 RC a few days ago.
Run away in fear as this is all completely useless information. Listening to me may well kill your pet kitten and render both your computer and you personally unbootable. This is a blog, not a technical article or official anything. Disclaimer: It's very likely that I have NO idea what I'm talking about.
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