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Answer» Would someone please recommend a tutorial (other than a microsoft site) that will guide one through ALL the steps of removal of an old operating system (windows) and reformatting,partitioning and installing a newer version (windows) on a computer that already has a single hardrive with a functioning operating system on it.A tutorial at the level of someone that is not a programmer nor a computer technician. thank you,truenorthmore info plz whats the old OS and whats the new Os going to be?Windows 98 Windows 2000 Windows XP Hope this helps.Where's ME ? ? ? Calum: thanks i'll check your LINKS out. unlovedwarrior: old =win98se(upgrade version) new=winxp-pro sp2. truenorththrow the xp cd in and follow instruction for a complete reformat and install make sure you have anything important backed up or else it will be lost for everunlovedwarrior,re your reply:1st thanks,2nd you might want to have a look at my post on the "computer software"(by far the most viewed=problems with sony vaio desktop) forum to see where this issue is coming from (particularly the last 2-3 posts). I have read Calum's link (well the one re XP) and given that i am not concerned at all about lost data as this is but a stage that in essence was to 1st determine if i had a computer i could get to work (the other post will clarify that). Now that i know it does work i am proceeding to the next phase ie. to actually get it configured the way i want. When i was only intent on determining if it worked i was not trying to finess anything. Now i am.For instance currently the file system is fat32 and i will want ntsf also my 80gb harddrive is partitioned (not that i tried to do that) into 2 drives (C&D) but it is only registering about 16 gb on each. I sure don't want that (i want the aprox 80gb it is capable of). So it is my impression to achieve this stuff i will need to do more than you suggest=ie.i think i will have to do an fdisk or whatever it is in xp. I have already contacted the H/D mfgr. (Samsung) for a proper jumper pin setup as the one on the H/D does not agree with the one on their web site. I suspect that must be done properly BEFORE i do the rest or it will predjudice the results. I want to try and get this right the 1st time if i can. appreciate your help. truenorthQuote from: patio on May 08, 2007, 01:08:04 PM Where's ME ? ? ? Dead and buried in a hole, hopefully. truenorth, your last post is a little hard to decipher. Perhaps separating it out into paragraphs would help.Calum, as per your suggestion i have broken the post into what i hope are more chewable bits.Hope it adds clarity. truenorthYou can delete partitions and format hard drives from the XP disk. Does the disk see the full capacity, or are you saying that it doesn't? And yes, you will want the jumpers configured correctly before you start.Calum, Line 1 of your reply is very encouraging. Line 2 Short answer=i am not sure. But let me provide some info that comes up at startup and perhaps the answer is in it. On an early DOS page that comes at boot the following is stated under "Memory Test: 491520k OK+,32768K shared memory. I believe this is all about RAM memory but not sure? However on the next DOS page the following is seen= PRI.Master Disk:80060MB (sure looks like an 80gb H/D figure to me) but again not sure. Other info from that same page if it is relevant= UDMA 5,DRAM Type:DDR SDRAM,DRAM Mode 64 bit. On your line 3 i do believe that i now have the jumpers set correctly for when i do the XP-Pro install. However i do realize that that even though i have repositioned the jumpers since i did the Win98se install that it will have no effect until i install a new operating system. The pins jumpered are "A" &"B" which coincidently is the exact same 2 pins that were jumpered on the SEAGATE H/D that was in the computer before i removed it and installed the SAMSUNG.Please do not feel any pressure to deal quickly with this issue as i do appreciate that all you generous "helpers" have other lives to lead. truenorth Sorry, totally missed this post. Yes, the part about memory is referring to RAM. And 80060Mb seems right to me too. Have you tried installing XP yet? Where are you on this issue now?Calum, Yes for some mysterious reason i too have had problems locating this post. I have gone as far as to page 13 (early April) to try and find it. The only time i see it appear is as in this case where there has been a "new" post. Strange!!!! To answer your question --total success has been achieved. i shall provide a copy of a post to the 2 other posts i have which have a relationship to my original post (however on different aspects) so as to provide the continuity to this post. If you have not done so reading the other 2 will bring it all together for you. One is "problems with Sony Vaio desktop" on the software forum and the other is "Coincident operating systems " on the windows forum. Hope this helps and thanks for your continued interest. This will probably be my last post on this topic. However as there has been such a huge viewing of this post i feel duty bound to give you the final outcome of this EVENT. This reply is also posted in the "windows forum" as it relates to an issue also involving this same computer which as is stated here is also resolved. This is an advisory to those that have posted on this thread and as well to those that may have viewed it and are awaiting a STATUS report. 1.While i have yet to overcome my wife's resistance to "fiddling " with her computer (the Cisnet) my natural couriosity obliged me to experiment with one of my own computers. A Sony Vaio model PCV-RXA 842.This computer and it's problems are related in CH "computer software" ""problem with Sony Vaio Desktop" . 2.Besides the generous help from the CH forum members i could not have achieved the success i have now without the additional help of 2 web sites http://www.geekgirls.com/windowsxp_install.htm & http://www.le.ac.uk/cc/dsss/docs/w2kprob.shtml . 3. I now have a 3 partition 80gb H/D (Samsung) 2 C&D as FAT32 and a G as NTFS . 4.C CONTAINS the original O/S Win98se (upgrade) that finally got the computer running again and G contains the XP-pro (corporate edition). 5. I was initially getting a freeze at the "Windows Setup" again as i did in the other post i mentioned . This was the same problem that was occuring with the original Seagate H/D. This time i used a suggestion in the 'www.le.uk" site to press "F5" when the option to press "F6" comes up during the boot phase. This overcame the freeze and allowed me to complete the O/S (XP-pro) install to a successful result. 6.While i have NOT yet attemted an install to a removable H/D given this experience i do not envisage a problem as as long as the removeable is plugged in and recognized one should be able to direct the O/S install there. 7. In this instance i had to format and create a file sysyem on the 44gb of the Samsung H/D that was recognized but not formated (G). Once both were done it was there that i installed the XP-pro. 8. The only item remaining to declare "mission accompished" is to regain the use of the 80gb Seagate H/D originally installed in the Vaio. Thanks again to all of you that endeavored to assist me in these related issues. truenorth OK, glad you got it SORTED and thanks for posting back.

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Would someone please recommend a tutorial (other than a microsoft site) that will guide one through ALL the steps of removal of an old operating system (windows) and reformatting,partitioning and installing a newer version (windows) on a computer that already has a single hardrive with a functioning operating system on it.A tutorial at the level of someone that is not a programmer nor a computer technician. thank you,truenorthmore info plz whats the old OS and whats the new Os going to be?Windows 98
Windows 2000
Windows XP
Hope this helps.Where's ME ? ? ?

Calum: thanks i'll check your LINKS out.
unlovedwarrior: old =win98se(upgrade version) new=winxp-pro sp2.
truenorththrow the xp cd in and follow instruction for a complete reformat and install

make sure you have anything important backed up or else it will be lost for everunlovedwarrior,re your reply:1st thanks,2nd you might want to have a look at my post on the "computer software"(by far the most viewed=problems with sony vaio desktop) forum to see where this issue is coming from (particularly the last 2-3 posts).

I have read Calum's link (well the one re XP) and given that i am not concerned at all about lost data as this is but a stage that in essence was to 1st determine if i had a computer i could get to work (the other post will clarify that).

Now that i know it does work i am proceeding to the next phase ie. to actually get it configured the way i want.

When i was only intent on determining if it worked i was not trying to finess anything. Now i am.For instance currently the file system is fat32 and i will want ntsf also my 80gb harddrive is partitioned (not that i tried to do that) into 2 drives (C&D) but it is only registering about 16 gb on each. I sure don't want that (i want the aprox 80gb it is capable of).

So it is my impression to achieve this stuff i will need to do more than you suggest=ie.i think i will have to do an fdisk or whatever it is in xp.

I have already contacted the H/D mfgr. (Samsung) for a proper jumper pin setup as the one on the H/D does not agree with the one on their web site. I suspect that must be done properly BEFORE i do the rest or it will predjudice the results. I want to try and get this right the 1st time if i can. appreciate your help. truenorthQuote from: patio on May 08, 2007, 01:08:04 PM

Where's ME ? ? ?

Dead and buried in a hole, hopefully.
truenorth, your last post is a little hard to decipher.
Perhaps separating it out into paragraphs would help.Calum, as per your suggestion i have broken the post into what i hope are more chewable bits.Hope it adds clarity. truenorthYou can delete partitions and format hard drives from the XP disk.
Does the disk see the full capacity, or are you saying that it doesn't?
And yes, you will want the jumpers configured correctly before you start.Calum, Line 1 of your reply is very encouraging.
Line 2 Short answer=i am not sure. But let me provide some info that comes up at startup and perhaps the answer is in it.
On an early DOS page that comes at boot the following is stated under "Memory Test: 491520k OK+,32768K shared memory. I believe this is all about RAM memory but not sure?

However on the next DOS page the following is seen= PRI.Master Disk:80060MB (sure looks like an 80gb H/D figure to me) but again not sure.
Other info from that same page if it is relevant= UDMA 5,DRAM Type:DDR SDRAM,DRAM Mode 64 bit.

On your line 3 i do believe that i now have the jumpers set correctly for when i do the XP-Pro install. However i do realize that that even though i have repositioned the jumpers since i did the Win98se install that it will have no effect until i install a new operating system. The pins jumpered are "A" &"B" which coincidently is the exact same 2 pins that were jumpered on the SEAGATE H/D that was in the computer before i removed it and installed the SAMSUNG.Please do not feel any pressure to deal quickly with this issue as i do appreciate that all you generous "helpers" have other lives to lead. truenorth
Sorry, totally missed this post.
Yes, the part about memory is referring to RAM.
And 80060Mb seems right to me too.
Have you tried installing XP yet?
Where are you on this issue now?Calum,
Yes for some mysterious reason i too have had problems locating this post. I have gone as far as to page 13 (early April) to try and find it. The only time i see it appear is as in this case where there has been a "new" post. Strange!!!!
To answer your question --total success has been achieved.
i shall provide a copy of a post to the 2 other posts i have which have a relationship to my original post (however on different aspects) so as to provide the continuity to this post. If you have not done so reading the other 2 will bring it all together for you. One is "problems with Sony Vaio desktop" on the software forum and the other is "Coincident operating systems " on the windows forum. Hope this helps and thanks for your continued interest.

This will probably be my last post on this topic. However as there has been such a huge viewing of this post i feel duty bound to give you the final outcome of this EVENT. This reply is also posted in the "windows forum" as it relates to an issue also involving this same computer which as is stated here is also resolved.

This is an advisory to those that have posted on this thread and as well to those that may have viewed it and are awaiting a STATUS report.
1.While i have yet to overcome my wife's resistance to "fiddling " with her computer (the Cisnet) my natural couriosity obliged me to experiment with one of my own computers. A Sony Vaio model PCV-RXA 842.This computer and it's problems are related in CH "computer software" ""problem with Sony Vaio Desktop" .
2.Besides the generous help from the CH forum members i could not have achieved the success i have now without the additional help of 2 web sites http://www.geekgirls.com/windowsxp_install.htm & http://www.le.ac.uk/cc/dsss/docs/w2kprob.shtml .
3. I now have a 3 partition 80gb H/D (Samsung) 2 C&D as FAT32 and a G as NTFS .
4.C CONTAINS the original O/S Win98se (upgrade) that finally got the computer running again and G contains the XP-pro (corporate edition).
5. I was initially getting a freeze at the "Windows Setup" again as i did in the other post i mentioned . This was the same problem that was occuring with the original Seagate H/D. This time i used a suggestion in the 'www.le.uk" site to press "F5" when the option to press "F6" comes up during the boot phase. This overcame the freeze and allowed me to complete the O/S (XP-pro) install to a successful result.
6.While i have NOT yet attemted an install to a removable H/D given this experience i do not envisage a problem as as long as the removeable is plugged in and recognized one should be able to direct the O/S install there.
7. In this instance i had to format and create a file sysyem on the 44gb of the Samsung H/D that was recognized but not formated (G). Once both were done it was there that i installed the XP-pro.
8. The only item remaining to declare "mission accompished" is to regain the use of the 80gb Seagate H/D originally installed in the Vaio. Thanks again to all of you that endeavored to assist me in these related issues. truenorth

OK, glad you got it SORTED and thanks for posting back.

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