William makes a good point about locking and unlocking the drive, it could turn out to be a hassle? I've had some serious problems trying to lock and unlock drives, ultimately I was able to get it to work but it was a problem.
<br><br>If I recall, the last time I needed to reformat the disk I used one of the Xbox utility disks that are talked about on some of the xbox forums for doing the maintenance.<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">
"I think the G4U software is my best option. I will let you know how I go."</span><br><br>G4U will image the drive though...<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">"Is that true even if you just copy the Xebian partition and leave the
</span><br style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">xbeboot code on the C: drive alone?"</span><br><br>Yes, you can start fresh by copying the contents of the xebian partition, I use this method when I want to backup certain points for future use. The last time I did a fresh install I backed up at certain points a long the way in case there were some problems and I wanted to start from a known starting point.
<br><br>AJM,<br><br>