Re: Reinstalled Vista

Your D partition was almost certainly a recovery partition that would let you restore the system to factory condition from a restore disk you created with installed software. The first thing any Vista owner should do. Eliminating or overwriting it will end that possibility. That means unless you were given a full set of restore disks, not just one, and not Vista install disks, you will end up with a system that has Vista loaded, and most devices not working because you have not provided the drivers. You will have go to the machine website and download and install these drivers. One that is not likely to be working is your nic card or function, so you won't be connected to the internet.

Since you blew it away, and have disks to install Vista, it is probably best to delete both partitions and make one large partition on the disk on which you install Vista. A free download called GParted is available as a disk image, and will burn to a CD that boots temporarily to Linux, and loads a partition manager that is easy to work with. When you are done, then reinstall Vista.

Good luck.


"MSPRISSYSMOM" <guest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:8d78c6230a3b6f616a64ca21d571c7b0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

-My friend is having issues, I am relaying there problem, here goes:-

-just reinstalled Vista. It loaded into C: which is a pity as there was
a partition for it to load into named D: My C: only has 10 GB space and
is now full. D: has 325 GB and nothing goes into it!. Can I change the
drive letters to make this problem go away?

Configuration: Vista Home Premium.

History: Recently reinstalled Vista after big crash. Had no reboot
disks.-


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MSPRISSYSMOM

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