Dell Inspiron laptop

[Olly]

I wanted to reformat my GDs computer so I put the operating system Windows Vista Home Premium onto the D: drive. I then formatted the C: drive. Once C: drive was clean I put Vista back onto the C: drive. Now when I switch on it shows both installations before I can log on. I have tried to remove the operating system off of the D: drive but I have had no luck in finding a way to do this. I have tried to reformat and it will not let me. Any help would be appreciated.

[9600gt]

Have you tried doing it in the disk management?

It will give you a reason for not formatting... what reason does it give?

Also see if you can allocate a new partition on the D:/ drive and delete the old one.

Hope you get it right

xox

[Dalo Harkin]

DELL often use a 'recovery partition' rather than OS disks.

Did the OS disk come with the lappy?

 

If you cant delete the C:/ partition when trying to install an OS then there may be restrictions set in the BIOS