Re: Repair MCE

Repair installations of MCE are generally considered a bad idea. Best to start over from scratch.

As to creating partitions, with Disk Management, No. You must already have the unpartitioned space available. Disk Management does not include the ability to resize existing partitions. For this you need a utility like BootIt Next Generation (disk and boot manager) or Partition Magic.

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"Eric Baines" <EricBaines@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:5E01F771-E55A-4C4D-B969-D7777F3D3D78@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I'm getting closer to rebuilding my PC after Nero 7 broke it.

I was just going to back everything up, reformat and start from scratch -
probably putting a 50Gb system partition and 150Gb data partition on my hard
drive. The 'back everything up' obviously still stands.

I was wondering if anyone had any experience of XP repair installation -
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/helpandsupport/learnmore/tips/doug92.mspx
. If so, what does it do? Does it effectively wipe the disk and start again?
Does it fix XP but leave all the other programs OK (surely not)? or what?
Might it be useful?

I was also wondering whether I could use Disk Management to create a data
partition on my disk - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309000/ . If so, could
I use this to create the partition before I start, backup all my data over
there and then just concentrate on rebuilding the system partition, secure in
the knowledge that my data is safe?

Or am I dreaming - is it best to just accept that it is going to be weeks to
get it back?

Cheers

Eric
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