Any good suggestions for a tool to partition a hard-drive? I'm getting a
laptop with a 80GB Hard-drive and with XP Pro preloaded from Dell and want
to be able to split the HD 40Gb for XP Pro/40Gb for XP Home
Jeff
You can use a utility such as Partition Magic...
but if your machine has XP pro...I would not bother to install XP home
Re: Fresh Install went Wonderfully ...Dell diagnostics can be accessed from your Dell utilities CD if you need to ... Internet connection working so you can download additional drivers.... Chose the main partition to install Windows on. ... Now I plan on doing fresh install on my other laptop.... (alt.sys.pc-clone.dell)
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