Re: Installing XP

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From: "Mark L. Ferguson" <marfer_mvpREMOVE@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 07:43:04 -0500

How are you trying to partition it? If from a boot to an ms-dos floppy, and using FDisk, you probably have a bad hard drive
controller. From XP setup, partition failure would imply some BIOS error.

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"Duane" <Duane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:2319DC92-9F93-4012-A651-3BF378467D20@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I have a system which had a harddrive crash. I got a 120G HD and XP home Full
> version. When XP trys to partition the drive it comes back a error that the
> drive is corrupt I replaced the drive and get the same message. The drive is
> a Western Digital. Any ideas
>
> --
> Thanks
> Duane

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