[arminius]

not sure if this is where this thread is ment to go?
I'm having major trouble formatting the right drive with my current boot disks, they just tell u the manufacturs ID numbers for the drives and that's it

is there a better one? that says what you named them? as well as all the manufacture gibberish, and will also let u set the partition sizes and formats and is just a do anything and everything boot disk?

[Stevo808]

What are you installing? XP or Vista? You could install the o/s first and then from there you can partition the HD.

[arminius]

I'm installing between xp and ubuntu, but it doesn't matter, I know I can partition after I've installed but i have alot of drives, I need a boot disk that can tell me which has what on it.

which can tell me Drive A is titled photos and has no OP on it, Drive B is titled Videos and has no OP on it, Drive C has an XP operating system on it

that's what I need, does such a boot disk exist?

[Nitestick]

last time i used a boot cd i tried UBCD but that was because it was the smallest out of the ones i was reccomended and i had to download it on a dialup connection

[arminius]

yeah that was the last one I tried, but all of it's partition programs made partitions that my xp home boot cd couldn't recognise, so any others?

[Nitestick]

you could simply disconnect the drives you don't want formatted.

[Stevo808]

I wouldn't know which software that can boot up to selectively look at each HD and do partitions, i would recommend Nitestick method.