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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Camarath" data-source="post: 1230598" data-attributes="member: 11987">I suggest that you physically discontect the drive that has data on it before you use the floppy disk to reformat the drive you want to reformat because it is not always easy to identify which drive is which especially if they are the same size. If you can get the the Recovery Console I would suggest you try that first using the guide on the earler site or the one on this site from Microsoft. <a href="http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;822800" target="_blank">http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;822800</a>Edit: I hope this post made sense.What I am suggesting is1. Try and use Recovery Console from Windows installation CD2. If that fails turn off computer and disconnect Hard Drive with the data you wish to keep3. Start up using the floppy that came with your drives 4. Reformat the drive (I do not believe the file system matters at this point)5. Remove floppy, reinsert Windows installation CD and try and install Windows (if you want to at this point if your file system is FAT32 you should be able to reformat to NTFS)</blockquote>