Re: Installation problem
- From: "relic" <spammail.bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 16:03:41 GMT
avenue10@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hi all,
My hard drive crashed and I am attempting to reinstall XP. I took out
my old drive (only one) and made my new drive the master drive. I
messed up the install process and it kinda worked sometimes but
eventually I resorted to using fdisk (from my Win 98 startup disk) and
also tried the free fdisk tool. Somehow, I don't know how, I have
managed to make 300 gig drive become a 33 gig hard drive. I tried
using both fdisks programs to delete all partitions. Then I went to
the Seagate utility (my hd is from Seagate) and it said my size was
300.
I thought I was all set, but when the XP install came up, it said I
still had 33 gigs. Somewhere, it's caching that information. I thought
the MBR containted the "load the os" instructions, so in fdisk I used
the options /ambr and /smbr.
Where is it storing this 33 gig information, how do I get rid of it,
and how do I make XP install recognize my full 300 gigs. I am using XP
w/SP2.
Thanks in advance!
Throw your Win98 disc away and stop using obsolete DOS commands like fdisk.
Boot from the XP CD and follow prompts for a full installation. After you
hit F8 to accept the EULA you'll see a list of all the disks/partitions it
finds. Delete all of them, then Create new partition using XP. It will
format it before it continues with the installation. (It will make NTFS
Partitions... that's what you want instead of the old FAT32 stuff.)
.
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