Ping: John John MVP or anyone Re: deleting partition "revisited"
- From: "Caroline \(shadoe\)" <cmsmock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:03:36 -0500
John,
Everything worked perfectly 1. removed partition....2. reformated..... 3. installed xp ...
except xp installed on drive H and C is now unassigned. There was no option on any windows for me to install to C. I know I can't change the system drive letter so how do I reinstall to drive C ??????.....oh dear, what a mess.
Caroline
You're welcome, good luck with the reinstall.
John
Caroline (shadoe) wrote:
Thank you John (MVP),sorry 'bout that ;-) should be (MSVIP)
I am doing this as I type. You have been a great help. I saved the
info previously.
Caroline
"John John (MVP)" <audetweld@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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If you want to reinstall Windows and only have one partition on the disk
simply boot the computer with the Windows XP cd and select the option to
install Windows. When you get to the disk and partition selection screen
you will be able to delete all the partitions on the disk and create a new
one using all the available disk space. Needless to say that all the
files on the disk will be lost when you delete the partitions. If you
have more than one hard disk make sure that you don't delete partitions on
the wrong one!
John
Caroline (shadoe) wrote:
John or anyone who can help,
I had already reinstalled XP (albeit on the wrong drive) so I do not
receive that partition message option, what can I do to get that message
back??? A crash seems the only way to get it back:-( I really
appreciate your help. I want to completely reinstall XP from scratch,
yes.
Caroline
"John John (MVP)" <audetweld@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Do you want to completely reinstall Windows from scratch again? If so
just boot with your Windows XP cd and at the beginning of the
installation routine, (at the disk/partition selection screen), you will
be offered to option to delete and recreate the partitions as you want
them and format them.
If you are trying to do this within Windows you are out of luck, you
obviously cannot format the partition where Windows resides and you
cannot format the partition where the System files Boot.ini,
NTDETECT.COM and ntldr reside. Furthermore, you cannot move the System
files (Boot.ini, NTDETECT.COM and ntldr) to a logical drive, to be able
to boot Windows these files *must* reside on a primary active partition,
the Windows files can be on a logical drive.
John
Caroline (shadoe) wrote:
You are both correct!!! I had a crash and then I discovered that my OS
was gone from the C drive and the files from D and K were now on C and
K
and the C and K files were reversed... eg the K drive was where my OS
was and the files that are now on the C drive, were on my K drive. I
realize that this is very confusing. In spite of this, I reinstalled
the OS and it installed to "C" ..... what a mess!!!!! All I want to do
is format disk 0 with no partition. Can I do this and can either of
you
help me please???
"John John (MVP)" <audetweld@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Are you trying to do this with the Windows XP built-in Disk Management
tool? (To start the Disk Management tool enter diskmgmt.msc in the
Start menu Run box)
If you are trying this from the Disk Management tool and if the
"Delete Partition..." is unavailable it indicates that the C: drive is
the System drive and that the K: drive is the boot volume.
John
Caroline (shadoe) wrote:
Disk 0 is partioned into C and K. They are NTFS. C is primary
partition and K is logical drive. I want to delete the partition but
neither drive gives me the option of deleting the partition. What am
I doing wrong????
Any help is most appreciated...
.
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