It sounds like you only reformatted ONE partition on a multi-partitioned
harddrive.

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DaveW

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"Mark" <markantispam@orange.fr> wrote in message
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> How can it be that after formatting a disk during a Win XP install that,
> after the install, two versions of windows are proposed in the startup
> menu? On Partition 1 and partition 2? Does this mean that a format is not
> complete? Does it imply that the Master Boot Record has not been
> formatted? If so, problems with MBR viruses cannot be resolved with a
> Windows XP install.
>
> Found a formatting tool for Maxtor drives: called Powermax v4.23
> (13/03/2007) Never tried using this a s a solution for this problem, but
> it seems that a windows install format does not remove the master boot
> record
>