While formatting a partition, if you see a message Windows cannot format the system partition on this disk then this post will help you. Although it is a rare error ...

A Recovery Partition on Windows computers is a special partition that is used for System Recovery purposes. You can view the Recovery Partition in the Disk Management tool on your Windows computer.

View image: http://www.1966ford.com/ars/disk.jpg <BR><BR>The system is running Windows Server 2003. I just popped in an 80 GB SATA hard drive which previously was ...