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I've just added an old Drive to replace a smaller one but i cannot format it for some reason.

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Could you give more information about what drive you replaced and what was the orginal drive.

I replaced the spare drive, which was named E Drive. The E has now become the DVD and the D was the E...does that make sense, it's beginning to confuse me. LOL

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I have an 80GB C Drive and a 10 GB E drive, i replaced the small one with a 40GB from my old computer. All i wanted to do was format it to keep pics n stuff on, but it's a problem for some reason. I've done this before with my first computer and had no problems with that at all, i just don't understand why i am now.

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could you give more information about what drive you replaced and what was the orginal drive. Are talking about a DVD drive or a harddrive.

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