Re: Partition and File System
From: Ken Blake (kblake_at_this.is.an.invalid.domain)
Date: 08/12/04
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Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 11:41:24 -0700
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Dil <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> typed:
>I am using Windows XP Professional
> My total hard disk size is 40 GB appx. with 4 partitions
> each 10 GB appx.
>
> At present I have all partitions formatted with NTFS.
> Windows Help says that earlier versions of windows (98,
> 95,...) can't recognise partitions formatted with NTFS.
>
> Frequently, I do something stupid by mistake inside
> Windows - (mess up with the registry or system files
> while developing my VB application!) and the next time I
> start Windows some kind of error occurs and I'll have to
> reinstall Windows.
>
> In that case the only interface I have is the command
> prompt which definitely doesn't recognise the partitions
> and tells me that I don't have a hard disk!
No, you're working from an invalid assumption here. If you have
to reinstall Windows, you do it from the CD, and don't need a
command prompt interface.
Just boot from the Windows XP CD (change the BIOS boot order if
necessary to accomplish this) and follow the prompts for a clean
installation. It will do the reformat for you.
You can find detailed instructions here:
http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html
There's no need to have a FAT32 partition to accomplish
reinstallation.
-- Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User Please reply to the newsgroup > > If I somehow try to install Windows XP from within that > command prompt, the Setup program says that it cannot run > in DOS Mode! > > So I decided to have atleast one partition formatted with > FAT32 which is atleast recognised by DOS Mode. > > But all my partitions are almost full and I cannot afford > to loose rearrange any data. The partition I said that I > decided to format with FAT32 is used to keep backup files > and I don't have any other choice. Will there be any > problem if the original files are in a partition > formatted with NTFS and the backup file of those files is > in one formatted with FAT32? > > I've stated a number of problems above and I'd appreciate > anyone with an answer to as many as possible.
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