Simviation Forum - Partition C only formating with XP pro

Jan 12^th, 2009 at 1:36pm

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My Sata HD has 7 partitions.

I am trying to format only C: & do a clean install of XP, without loosing all the staff in the other partitions.

I did it a few times before, but this time booting in my win98 floppy does not work. Tried 2-3 floppies.

My "Paragon Partition Manager 8.0 Personal" cannot do it as is working within windows.

Tried various ways to get to the DOS prompt A:\ & use "fdisk or format" without success.

My Full XP CD can only format the whole HD.

Can any body help me please? luke

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Reply #1 - Jan 12^th, 2009 at 8:22pm

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7 partitions on one drive? Shocked

If I were you, I would backup all that data and reformat the entire drive for XP. Or just get a separate HD for your OS and keep that drive for storage.

Other than that I don't know.

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Reply #2 - Jan 13^th, 2009 at 3:21am

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Your windows cd should be able to do it. Just put it in and when your on the choose your partition part of the installation press D to delete the C drive and then create a new partition using that space then use that.

But in saying that i do agree with raptorx because you are losing a fair bit of performance in having 7 partitions instead of just the 1.

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Reply #3 - Jan 13^th, 2009 at 1:32pm

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Thanx all,

Loosing performance, where or in what sense?

Are fs9 / x, word, web browising etc slower.

A few times formated C: only, but this time even the Full XP & XPpro CDs when run & ask to install XP it refuses saying you have a later version or another excuse.

I dual boot with Ubuntu & somebody sugested to use its "gParted" partitioning program running outside Windows & format C:, then clean install in it XP.

Has anybody tried it? luke

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Reply #4 - Jan 14^th, 2009 at 2:16am

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luke wrote on Jan 13^th, 2009 at 1:32pm:

Thanx all,

Loosing performance, where or in what sense?

Are fs9 / x, word, web browising etc slower.

A few times formated C: only, but this time even the Full XP & XPpro CDs when run & ask to install XP it refuses saying you have a later version or another excuse.

I dual boot with Ubuntu & somebody sugested to use its "gParted" partitioning program running outside Windows & format C:, then clean install in it XP.

Has anybody tried it? luke

You'll need to ask someone a bit more knowledgeable than me about the losing performance bit. I just know you do

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Reply #5 - Jan 16^th, 2009 at 5:53am

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Thanx all again,

I did it, but don't ask how!. Out of all info received managed to concort something & finally with my "real XP install CD" for the upteenth time got the elusive list of partitions, deleted with closed eyes C:, then installed XP which formated C: first & the world is at peace again.

But you are not off the hook yet.

Evidently now the dual boot "boot.ini" is gone & I cannot find where I save the original.

1. Can you add to this below what is necessary to give me the "UBUNTU" option again?

[boot loader]
timeout=3
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows
XP"
/fastdetect

2. A different question now:-
I noticed my daughter going online with the internet connection light of her WIRED rooter flashing.

On investication we found that her Asus Wify was connecting to a wave from a near by wireless connection.

We quickly fixed her rooter & disabled what was working in Wifi.

Does this mean that while she was on it others were seeing her emails, letters, user names & passwords?.................... Perish the thought. luke

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Reply #6 - Jan 16^th, 2009 at 6:42am

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It is extremely unlikely that other people were seeing her stuff, unless you have some hackers living very near your house Grin

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But i can't answer your first question because i don't use linux.

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