Installed win xp over home, now 2 partitions ??
 

Hi all, quick story, a friend of a friend has a lappy, it had so much crap on it that we decided to go for an upgrade from xp home to pro, everything went ok, or so it seemed, now we have 2 partitions ( C ) and ( E ) C, shows up as System and E shows up as Boot ( under computer managment )

Ok, what I would like to do is format the HD to reclaim all disk space under 1 lable, then do a fresh install of XP pro, I can't see an option anywhere and I can't delete either 1 of the partitions.

Q & A's on a postcard please to .............. confused / desperate ... and gratefull :tu:

Re: Installed win xp over home, now 2 partitions ??
 

when you down this way next dude? I could shove it in my external caddie and format on here lol Im a bit confused but maybe let me have a look on remote assistance one evening?


EDIT seems vague my answer here but me and bop spoke about this last night on TS

Re: Installed win xp over home, now 2 partitions ??
 

Boot from the CD it should give you the options to format the drive and do a clean installation.
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Some instructions here
http://www.blackviper.com/Articles/O...tallxppro1.htm
if they help.

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I couldn't say :shrug:

I'll try it :tu: BRB

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I thought you said you tried that dude???

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I think / thought I have / had, very tired atm been up for 36 hours straight :Yikes:

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you'll need to repartition the drive, delete the 2 partitions then make 1 partition.
you should be able to do it if you boot using the XP disc.

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Make him try again for the hell of it lol.
If you can boot from the CD Bop you should at some point in the install get the option to choose a partition, you should be able to remove any extra partitions here.
Best thing to do is read the instructions in the link I gave as it has screenshots so you can recognise where you are in the install.
Bop try booting form the CD again and look for this screen
http://www.blackviper.com/Articles/O.../image1_4.html

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Ok, booting from cd atm :tu: bear with me..

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i dont think the xp disc and resize partitions so if you just delete the extra one you will lose a chunk of HD space.

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Cheers, seems to be working, as Zingle says, I'm sure I tried this already, see how it goes and I'll post back in a bit :tu:

Thanks to all so far ...... again :D

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From Post 1 Bop says he wants to reformat the drive completely and start again. Booting from the CD should allow that to happen.

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OOPS... to late :( we'll see what the outcome is, just formating to NTFS
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Yep, deleted both partitions and am formatting as above /\

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Yeah but you were tired so the odds are you may have chosen a wrong option somewhere that stopped it doing what you want to achieve. At least it's looking like it might work this time though.

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Seems to be working, Xp is installing so we'll see what the out come is, post back later :tu: 1/2 hour ish :dozey: :p: :D:D

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1/2 hour? Time for a beer then ;) Glad it's working this time, did you run the install from within Windows the first time?

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well bop I totally got the wrong end of a mucky pole last night.I thought you had installed xp to a partition and you wanted to format the second partition and had problems

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Already on the beer, thanks for thinking of my well being tho :rolleyes: :D

:sleep: :sleep: :sleep: :dunce: :shrug:
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Thanks all, problem sorted, reading a full 30 GiB .. ish, now to install SP2 and NIS ( As requested ) and things, long night and I'm knackered, all good fun tho, might even squeeze in some MOH while its setting up :tu:

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Sometimes the easy answers are the right ones lol. Good move to install Sp2 before anything else, less to interfere that way. Have fun ;)

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And now we have silence.......

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Yeah gonna wrap it up tighter than a ducks proverbial in water, then connect it on my connection, run updates and finish with it so I can play play play :D

Thanks again all.