I want a clean reinstall of XP professional. Do I have to repartition my
harddrive or is it enough to just format the partition I want the OS to
reside? There are two partitions on my harddrive c: and d:
Re: HD problems on HP Pavillion ze5602ea notebook ... I had only created a single 7 gig partition before, so the rest of the drive ... was RAW and unformatted (it wouldnt format from XP setup remember) So after ... Management I tried to format it, after half an hour it hadnt done anything ... > 30GB drives are not terribly expensive any more. ... (comp.sys.hp.hardware)
Re: Hard drive ... the current format is FAT32 and when i try to boot from the 80GB hard drive, formated as NTFS it comes up with: NOT FOUND ANY [Active Partition] in HDD. ...(Win2K... (microsoft.public.win2000.file_system)
Re: cannot format / install xp ...format partition C but then had the error - Invalid Partition, ... managed to format partition C, but cannot get any further, as even though it ... I purchased a new drive to format, install XP, recover the lost data on ... Try using the Manufacturer of the new Hard Drives own Installation Software. ... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support)
Re: Failed XP-HOME installation ... Assuming your system is set to boot from the CD-ROM drive, ... This will bring you to a partition map where you ... can delete, create and format partitions.... I've> also tested the drives according to the different manufacturers own> utilities and nothing seems wrong. ... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
Re: Format C: ... > The Windows XP CD is bootable and contains all the tools necessary ... > to partition and format your drive. ...Clean Install Windows XP ... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers)
