Re: repartition the HDD

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The install CD will detect the hard drive and it will partition it correctly.

You need to provide more detail as to how your hard drive is connected. If
the hard drive is IDE/ATA/PATA type, XP should automatically detect it and
partition it correctly.

If the hard drive is Serial ATA/SATA, SCSI or RAID based, you may need to
provide additional driver prior to XP set up. This is usually done by
pressing <F6> to load additional drivers (shown on the screen during boot-up.)

If you still can not re-install XP, check the BIOS to see it can "see" the
hard drive. If not, then this is the "ultimate" reason why you lost the
partition.

If the BIOS can "see: the drive, then the drive might be becoming flaky and
will completely fail soon.

If either of these last two steps happen to you, replace the hard drive as
soon as possible.



On 22/09/2006 GG <GG@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
thank you for replying Yves.
i really thought the same but the results come to be different. win xp did
load the post files prior to installation and then alerted me of quitting the
setup as it did not detect any HDD installed.
No, i do not have a recovery cd. what i need is a partition utility that i
can run it from the cd and not from the floppy drive. what do you think?

hope i am evaluating the things in the right way. appreciate your help in
advance.

"Yves Leclerc" wrote:

If you have an XP Home install CD, then the partition will be done by the
set
up process when you boot from that CD.

If you have a recovery CD, then this should place the partition, and
software,
back to factory defaults.



On 22/09/2006 GG <GG@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Gents,
I lost the hard drive partition on a new laptop. what I need is to
partition the hard drive again so I can format and install windows xp. How
can I do that if I do not have a floppy drive to load the partitioning
This
is a new laptop designed for win xp home edition. Please show me a way to
do
that taking in consideration that I do not have an integrated floppy drive
neither an external one. Is it possible to do that from CD?


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