RE: Doing a clean or new install of XP onto a logical drive

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From: anon (anon_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 12/04/04 

Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 13:55:04 -0800

should not be a problem doing a new install on the D partition, (a "clean
install" is when you delete \ re-create the partition, format, install)

just keep in mind that windows XP setup may not label the partition as it
does in windows 98 if you manually changed the drive letter assignments.

"Daniel Prince" wrote:

> My Windows XP Home installation has gotten all messed up. When I
> try to boot windows, I keep getting an error messages that says:
>
> IO system verification error in (WDM driver error 207) [+0 at
> 000000000]
>
> I tried to do a repair installation but it did not work. Now I can
> not get into safe mode, or safe mode with command prompt, because of
> the failed repair installation.
>
> When I try to go into either type of safe mode I get a message
> saying XP is unable to run setup in safe mode. When I click on the
> X in the upper right corner of the message box, all I get is a blank
> screen or my computer reboots. I had to run my old 98 SE to use
> Agent and send this message.
>
> I may need to do a clean or new install to a different logical
> drive. I have two physical hard drives. Both of them have one
> primary partition and one extended partition. When I partitioned
> these drives I was using Windows 98 SE so I used fat 32 and made all
> the logical drives smaller than 16 gigs to keep the cluster size
> down.
>
> My drive zero is 120 gigs and it has logical drives C through K on
> it. My Windows 98 SE installation is on the C drive. My second
> drive is 30 gigs. It has logical drives L and M on it. My Windows
> XP installation is on the M drive.
>
> On 98 I use the program Letter Assigner to make the first logical
> drive in the extended partition drive D, instead of the primary
> partition on the second drive being D. I made the primary partition
> on the second drive the L logical drive. On XP I did the same thing
> with the control panel.
>
> I have about eight gigs free on my D drive. I can easily clear out
> a few more gigs but some of the files on this drive are applications
> that would be hard to move.
>
> Can I do a clean or new install of XP on my D logical drive without
> removing EVERYTHING from that logical drive?
>
> If not, can I move all the files from my E logical drive and install
> XP there without having to repartition the drive and without losing
> anything on logical drives C, D, F, G, H, I or K?
>
> Thank you in advance for all replies.
> --
> I am TERRIBLY cruel to my cat. I tease him with a vine tendril
> until he either jumps up in the air to bat at it or zooms around
> in a circle until he gets too dizzy to stand up. What is cruel about
> it is that I don't do it nearly as much as he wants me to.
>

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