When I boot to XP, it sees the drive in 2 partitions, 130gigs each. I have no idea how it came up with that, the drive has 3 partitions, divided 50g, 50g, & 400g. The XP disc apparently can't read them right either, so I decided to disconnect the bad drive and connect a brand new drive which is now the only drive on the system. I began to install Windows XP so that I could get back into windows and then run some partition utilities on the bad drive. Unfortunately, after the installation reaches its first restart, I get an error message "error loading windows". Apparently that X: drive is the culprit and it's still there. Even when I disconnect all the hard drives that X: drive is still there, and I believe it contains boot info that's throwing the system off, preventing me from booting anything. Problem is I can't find any way to get rid of it. I try formatting it, it tells me it's a 'right protected disk'. I try to delete it with the Ghost utilities disc, it tells me that my current windows system is on drive X: and deleting it may mess up my system.
So the question now becomes, where on the system is this partition if it's not on any of the hard drives? Is it in the ram? And, most importantly, how the *censored* to I get rid of it??