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Josh1 Administrator |
posted December 21, 2003 01:18 AM
 
Glad everything works, and your so welcome, Have a Merry Chr ist mas (space is intended, becasue the filter will mark out the word I am wanting to say) ------------------ IP: Logged |
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dm567 Member |
posted December 20, 2003 06:46 PM
Done! Thanks IP: Logged |
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wedor Moderator |
posted December 15, 2003 07:09 AM
Follow the prompts on the CD to delete what is there, then you can create a new partition and format it also following the prompts. IP: Logged |
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Josh1 Administrator |
posted December 15, 2003 12:54 AM
Yea just go ahead and put the cd in and boot off that and let XP setup do the work for you. ------------------ IP: Logged |
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dm567 Member |
posted December 14, 2003 10:42 PM
OK, So should I now delete the newly created 2 gig partition and then install windows xp by booting up to the cd, or just boot up to the cd in its current condition and install xp? IP: Logged |
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wedor Moderator |
posted December 14, 2003 06:36 PM
You should quit wasting your time with fdisk and just let XP partition and format the drive, the format /s switch only works with older versions of Windows and is not needed anymore. IP: Logged |
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Josh1 Administrator |
posted December 14, 2003 06:15 PM
The format /s command will copy system files to your c: or whatever directory you specify. The reason for the small drive space is because you formatted the drive using FAT 16, FAT 16 can only see a drive up to 2.1 GB. Or a combination of the non-dos partition then you have to include that in the little hard drive space. So if you cannot delete that partition in fdisk then install windows, then go to disk management then you can delete that partition their. ------------------ IP: Logged |
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dm567 Member |
posted December 14, 2003 05:51 PM
NOTE: In order to format I used the command: FORMAT C: /S No other command would work. I found it at: After I formated I was able to delete the primary Dos partition. Then I created a primary Dos partition and when prompted asked for the largest possible. It created a 2045 partition. However the whole hard drive is 8025. Why was the primary partition limited to 2045? Is that OK IP: Logged |
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dm567 Member |
posted December 14, 2003 05:46 PM
I was able to delete both partitions by formating the dos partition first which got rid of the label and then I was able to delete it. Then I went and created a primary dos partition and when prompted asked for the largest available. It created a 2047 partition and the total size of the hard drive is 8025. Why? Is this Ok? IP: Logged |
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Josh1 Administrator |
posted December 14, 2003 05:25 PM
Okay I don't know if fdisk will allow you to delete a primary partition while a non dos partition exist. Try to delete your primary partition. Lets try this, if you are unable to partition your disk at least you can format it by the way I instructed to do so. Then after you have windows up and running, you can then use disk administrator to fdisk the non-dos partition. Does that make sense? ------------------ IP: Logged |
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dm567 Member |
posted December 14, 2003 05:20 PM
I was able to delete both partitions by formating the dos partition first which got rid of the label and then I was able to delete it. Then I went and created a primary dos partition and when prompted asked for the largest available. It created a 2047 partition and the total size of the hard drive is 8025. Why? Is this Ok? IP: Logged |
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dm567 Member |
posted December 14, 2003 04:46 PM
I made a mistake earlier. What is left is the "primary dos partition" and it is labeled big "B" When I try to delete it it says "Volume label does not match" I tried it with a blank and same result I tried it with a space before the B with same result IP: Logged |
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Josh1 Administrator |
posted December 14, 2003 04:31 PM
Is that a big B or little b? Are you sure there are no spaces? How big in size is this Non-Dos partition? ------------------ IP: Logged |
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dm567 Member |
posted December 14, 2003 04:21 PM
I have already deleted the second partition first(I don't know why I did that one first) and only the non dos partition is left now. I tried to delete it and a prompt comes up and asks for the drive label. Then I entered "B"(it was labeled b") and it came back and said "error wrong label". Thus I am unable to delete the non dos partition with FDisk. What should I try? IP: Logged |
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Josh1 Administrator |
posted December 14, 2003 03:41 PM
Go back to fdisk, press Y at the first screen, delete the non-dos partition, and then delete the primary partition. Then after that, you will need to create one primary partition, using the maximum available size. Then after that is done, you will need to boot up to the windows XP CD-ROM. You may need to change the boot order so that the CD-ROM boots first. Place your windows xp CD-ROM in the drive reboot and then xp setup will format the drive for you. If you get the message of “volume label does not match” in fdisk, then make sure that volume label is correct. If there is no volume label, then just press enter. ------------------ IP: Logged |
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Hugger1 Member |
posted December 14, 2003 03:03 PM
After putting your floppy disk in and doing a "dir", type "format c:" at the DOS prompt. That should format the whold drive. Or you could just run the XP install and when it says it found an operating system and asks if you want it to proceed, as the disk will be reformatted, you say yes. [This message has been edited by Hugger1 (edited December 15, 2003).] IP: Logged |
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dm567 Member |
posted December 14, 2003 02:02 PM
I have a computer with windows nt and xp both on the c drive. I'd like to erase everything on the drive and start over with a new install of xp pro. I used fdisk and deleted the second partition which was a dos partition. Then I tried to delete the non dos partition and was unsuccessful. Fdisk keeps telling me I have the wrong volume label. Then I just tried to reformat the whole drive and typed "format" at the dos prompt. (I did a dir and found that on the diskette I have there is a format function) It says bad command? What am I doing wrong? Thanks, IP: Logged |
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