Hi Al,



You didn't mention which OS you are running on your System drive ,presumably C ?

Anyway ,I'll give you the generic description:

You can do it via My Computer > Right-click drive E > in the menu click  Format 

(Dangerously easy. This is how people lose their partitions. I still don't know how they get past the confirmation dialogs ,

but it happens.)

You can also do it via Disk Management. Again r-c the drive > Format.



The procedure doesn't continue into section (partition? ) F ,but you can delete partition E and increase the size of F if you want.

Disk Management in Win7 gives you more choices than XP in that regard.



You could also use a 3rd party partition manager ,like 

Easeus Partition Master http://www.partition-tool.com/personal.htm  (Free)    or

MiniTools Partition Wizard  http://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html



Both allow the creation of a bootable CD to work outside the active partition. (so-called off-line)



Take your time with it. Read and explore the program and its functions.



Peter E.



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From: "alan smith" 

Sent: Friday, 30 September, 2011 2:29 PM

To: <[log in to unmask]>

Subject: [PCSOFT] drive problem.



My computer has a SATA   320Gb hard drive partitioned into 5 sections.    C,  E,  F,  G,  H,   & D is DVD  R/RW.

 

I've taken almost  all of the data out of drive  E, but I would like to FORMAT the section. Is there any chance

 

that the procedure would continue into F section ??  I've done it with single drives & flash drives, but never

 

what I want to do now.   Many thanks for your help.   Al Smith

 

       

              



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