Crash Windows XP?

Old spring plate from laptop installed in desktop PC

I want to format the hard drive to boot from another hard drive in Windows and use it as a secondary drive,

XP is currently on it, but can no longer be booted.

when I boot from the other disk, the hard disk manager does not recognize the 2nd disk.

With a Win10 CD, the folder structure of the old XP disk with old vacation folders is shown to me when I go to browse, but I do not get any partitions to format. He only writes something about an outdated version of the program

Windows setup runs into an error with the XP CD

with a 98CD he says he can't find any installation files

how do I get Windows XP down now?

Will GParted help me?

I don't need to back up data.

Press the Windows button
computer management

enter and start.

You will then see the disk under Storage → Disk Management
Right in the window there then right-click on the drive and press format. Make sure you get the right one.

Here you can also create and manage partitions with simple means. Unfortunately only rudimentary but possible.

I recommend this tool: https://www.computerbild.de/...30393.html After you have downloaded the ISO, you have to write it to an empty formatted stick using Rufus https://rufus.ie/. Then you have the tool on a bootable stick.

Then install the XP hard drive in the PC and boot this stick. This allows you to format the hard drive you want. The tool is self-explanatory. When formatting, I recommend NTFS. Then XP is completely gone.

Start cmd with admin rights and enter diskpart.

And be careful, this is a tool for admins and real men.

It is no longer bootable

No longer bootable

Hang the record in your new system and then do what I told you to do.

You should also install the hard drive in your Win10 and carry out the above steps via Win10.

I understood your text in such a way that you want to continue using the hard drive.