Re: Clean install of XP - unpartitioned space query

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chkdsk won't necessarily detect a failing drive, you need to run the drive mfg's diagnostic utility which you can get from the drive mfg's website.

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"DAVEM" <DAVEM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:ED59B9AF-5563-49C6-8730-EA8EAE61C153@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thanks

Yes good point, at some point it said unpartitioned space but it obviously
did stay like that - I have now deleted both, created one new one and when
formatted and XP is installed I guess I will run chkdsk and see if drive is
terminal.

Thanks for your help.

"David B." wrote:

If it fails the diagnostics it's probably bad and needs to be replaced. And
you don't have any unpartitioned space on the drive, you have C (which looks
like a recovery or diagnostics partition) and you have D, which is the
primary partition you want to install to, free space does not get assigned
drive letters, and you have drive letters.

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"DAVEM" <DAVEM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> This is my son's laptop which had a blue screen and could not boot
>
> It has one 80GB drive which now fails the DST diagnostic.
> It does not appear to have any media readers
>
> Setup shows
>
> 76317 MB Disk 0 at Id 0 on bus 0 on atapi (MBR)
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> C: Partition 1 (Unknown) 1035 MB (1035 MB free)
> D: Partition 2: (Unknown) 75281 MB (75281 MB free)
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> "DAVEM" wrote:
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>> Hi
>>
>> I am doing a clean install of XP Home on a laptop and deleted the two
>> disk
>> partitions as I wanted to create one partition. But it still keeps >> the
>> two
>> unpartitioned spaces separate. How do I make the two unpartitioned
>> spaces
>> into one - without buying third party software.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Davem



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