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[(FG) Waidey]

Never let your brother install an OS for you

I've ended up with C: and D: both with windows on..however D is used to boot and C is the system drive somehow.

Tried slapping in the XP disk but it goes through the process and doesn't give the option to delete/format partitions.

I've ended up with a 40GB C:, 3GB D:(main) and a 105GB Z Drive.

Anyway i can format and delete partitions without using the XP disk?

Im also needing a way to back up 100GB of Film and Music without an external hard drive (i have another shit pc they can all rest on).

Help

[(FG) Cyborg]

take the hd out of second pc mate and put in the one with the files you want to back-up, copy over the stuff you want then take the drive out

when in windows right click on my computer and then select manage
inside there select disk management, this will show the hds, right click and delete the ones you dont want

unplug the D drive from the power and install windows on your C drive

hopefully your D drive is set to a slave devise so when you have installed windows and refitted your HD it shoud still boot form your C, or you can choose boot menu when you power up and select the drive you want to boot from

Once in windows go bakc to disk management and if needed delete the partiton and re create...

Hope it helps

[Happyarry]

take the hd out of second pc mate and put in the one with the files you want to back-up, copy over the stuff you want then take the drive out

when in windows right click on my computer and then select manage
inside there select disk management, this will show the hds, right click and delete the ones you dont want

unplug the D drive from the power and install windows on your C drive

hopefully your D drive is set to a slave devise so when you have installed windows and refitted your HD it shoud still boot form your C, or you can choose boot menu when you power up and select the drive you want to boot from

Once in windows go bakc to disk management and if needed delete the partiton and re create...

Hope it helps

took the words right outta my mouth cyb??

[(FG) juliankr]

took the words right outta my mouth cyb??

ROFLMAO. short and to the point.

[(FG) NeeDSiE]

just not looking in the right places waidey, the xp cd will give you the option, if you choose to install the OS then it takes you to a screen with the disk management on, from there you can choose which partition to install onto, simply press D on all affected partitions until you got one big unallocated space, then press C to create a partition in the new unallocated space. format to NTFS and viola you got a big arse drive and nothing on it, continue with the install and you got yourself a big arse drive with XP on it.

[(FG) Waidey]

just not looking in the right places waidey, the xp cd will give you the option, if you choose to install the OS then it takes you to a screen with the disk management on, from there you can choose which partition to install onto, simply press D on all affected partitions until you got one big unallocated space, then press C to create a partition in the new unallocated space. format to NTFS and viola you got a big arse drive and nothing on it, continue with the install and you got yourself a big arse drive with XP on it.

Thats what i thought was meant to happen, mine goes straight from Repair Windows Screen (f3- quit R-repair esc-dont repair are options) Repair doesnt seem to work and pressing esc it goes straight to installing on the next partition.

[(FG) NeeDSiE]

Thats what i thought was meant to happen, mine goes straight from Repair Windows Screen (f3- quit R-repair esc-dont repair are options) Repair doesnt seem to work and pressing esc it goes straight to installing on the next partition.

open the recovery console on the setup cd and log onto windows, type "format c:", this will format the boot drive, it will take a while, exit and restart the setup and do as i have said above, you want windows to think you have 2 empty partitions with no OS on any of them, that way it will give you the disk management options.

[(FG) Waidey]

fixed, ty cyb / needs!

[(FG) Cyborg]

anytime dude