Re: Frustration installing Win XP

I agree with everything John John told you. After my first extrememly
frustrating attempt to install XP, I now allow at least 10GB for an XP
install partition. 9GB will probably work if you want to give up that
data -- that is, if I understand your partitioning scheme correctly.

BTW, you can download a boot disk from http://www.bootdisk.com/.
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joseph2k wrote on Sun, 10 Sep 2006 05:12:35 -0700:

I have read a lot of posts and scanned lots of headers, google'd some
also.
I have a bit of a weird problem:

My old athlon 800 MHz died, would not power up, replacing the power
supply
did not help.
So i bought a new mobo with CPU and DDR2 Dram (2GB), the new mobo powers
up
and passes POST.
The previous system was Win98SE. I am trying to save the data on the
old
hard disks; 1 IDE 1 SCSI. The existing partitioning is a bit strange:


9GB disk
8 MB system commander
3.5 GB other OS
Extended partition for the balance
{
1 GB Drive D
2.5 GB Drive E
1.8 GB unformatted / FAT (tried both)
}
and some wasted space

SCSI:
18GB disk
1.9 GB drive C
10.4 GB extended partition
{
1.9 GB drive F
1.9 GB drive G
1.9 GB drive H
!.9 GB drive I
1.9 GB drive J
}
3.4 GB Other OS
and some wasted space

The old W98SE CD is not bootable, and i do not have those boot floppies
any
more. My WinXP-SP2 CD cannot deal with the existing partitioning, and
will
not format / use the existing (free / formatted empty) space on the IDE
drive. IIRC XP requires a space on the "boot" drive (which was SCSI "C"
in
Win98SE), but will not install there, nor will it use the free space or
formatted FAT volume on the IDE disk. I think i may be missing
something
but i want to preserve as much as possible of the previous Win98
installation before getting all brute force about it. Disk volume
backups
just do not preserve the registry in the same way as an upgrade install.

--
JosephKK
Gegen dummheit kampfen die Gotter Selbst, vergebens.
--Schiller


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