How to Re-Format Hard Drive by deleting old drive in Windows XP format?

You need to create a new partition. For that go to Start > Run > diskmgmt.msc. You will see the unallocated space there, right click on that and click on the create partition option. It will prompt you to format it later in the wizard, go with that option. That will be all.

From your question I'm assuming you want to format a secondary harddrive through windows ( the harddrive without the operating system installed on it) Here's the way to do it In this example I have... keep reading →