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Answer» I want to load XP from the D: drive after creating partitions. The windows disk from the bundled package will not allow this apparently unless I usw DOS commands. Can anyone help with this?Please give just a little more info. I want to load XP from the D: drive after creating partitions. Please forgive me, it's hot here & I've had a hard day so my brain is not functioning properly. The scenario seems to be that you have partitioned your hard-disk and presumably formatted your partitions. You want to "load XP from the D: drive" which is now the second partition on your drive, not your cdrom. Can you not just use fdisk (or some other software) to create partitions, format, change bios to make your cdrom the first boot option, put the cd in the drive and reboot? Maybe you could post the messages you get which indicate that you need Dos commands to intall XP. Sorry about my confusion. Quote I mean that I want to install XP from the CD that cam with my PC. It is a recovery CD. It automaticaly formats and then removes the partitions that I create. I use the software that came with my replacement hard disk to creat the partitions. You "D-drive" (CD-ROM) must be configured as the 1st boot device in the CMOS setup (BIOS). If not 1st, then before the hard drive. The drive that I want to load XP from is a cd rom. The partitions on the hard drive will end up being C and D. The OS is on a "recovery disk" that was bundled with the PC from the manufacturer. The hard drive is a replacement drive and the manufacturer provided partitioning software. When using the "recovery disk", and following the prompts, it will remove the partitions. The prompts ask if I want to format, and the other is, do I want to run a recovery. This is all in a DOS format. If I select N at each of these prompts, all processes end (stop) and I am then either required to enter a DOS command or start over.That is a problem with some "Recovery Disks" - they just delete ALL the partitions, reinstall how they want, not what you want. I don't know any way around that, if you want to use their software to restore. It depends on the manufacturer and the product LINES. My last Dell came with a CD of the O/S, but that was several years ago.Did this hard drive come with an image file on it........make model of pc in question may help......The computor is a Northgate with a 1.8 AMD Athlon. I do not know of a specific model number. I would really hate to buy a OEM XP disc just to do a simple task that I want to do. GX1_Man understands what the situation is. I assumed that there was a DOS command to make the disc do what I want. With my current set-up I have, two 160G hard drives, and two DVD drives. I want to partition both HD's and maximise the use. I have found that XP will not support a 160G HD, it automatically reduces the size usable to 140G. If anyone has an idea that does not include purchasing an OEM XP disc please let me know.I don't think it can be done, short of buying a new XP CD. Those restore CD's have a mind of their own.Sa... let me se if i undestend... The whole ideea is the partitioning of your HDD's... and your WIN XP CD does the partitionig for you ... the way he wants... Usualy when I install Win XP i make only one partition ... Ex:5 Gb ... and after Win XP is up, I use Partition MAGIC 8 the create, modify, delete, resize the partitions... |
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