Windows 10: Can I plug a drive with windows on it into a windows computer in order to format the drive?

I cannot get into windows at all right now. I think this happened because I was having some other issues, and when I was trouble shooting, I changed my active partition to my C drive. Which I'm pretty sure should be fine, except that I think somehow windows was split between my C and D drive. So when I changed the active partition to my C drive, windows just didn't work.


So my plan is to unplug my C and D drives and then plug my C drive into another computer and format it so I can plug it back into my computer to install windows again. Then, plug my D drive back into my computer and put files I want to save onto my C drive so I can format my D drive and then put the files back on my D drive.


Would this solve my problem if I am right about the cause? Also is it possible that I could mess up the other computer that I am going to format my C drive on if something goes wrong?

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help. USB drive isn't assigned a drive letter.

Any usb flash drive I plug into my computer isn't assigned a drive letter. The physical drive shows in the "safely remove hardware" but it doesnt show up in disk management. I have tried to populate the volume thru the safely remove hardware properties window and it does pop up in the list but it doesn't stay there. This isn't a format or assign a letter problem. It's more complicated then that. Maybe one of the services needed for usb drive management was disabled? Suggestions needed. btw external usb harddrives work fine.

 

How to partially format a hard drive?

I just installed Windows 8 on my computer. I placed the files I wanted to keep on an external hard drive prior to the installation, that is fine. However, I though that the process would format the computer's hard drive, which it did not.

Is it possible to format my hard drive in order to keep only what is related to Windows 8?
If not, can I format the whole thing and re-use the same Windows 8 key?

Thanks for your help

 

Installing Windows 7 via USB flash drive!

USB drive doesnt show up, even after a format through windows (XP)

Any suggestions?