What do you think I need to do in this situation?:
About 9 months ago, I bought an HP PC from Best Buy. They asked me if I wanted recovery disks made up, which I had them do. They set it up with the hard drive portioned, C: and D:, with D: being named “HP_Recovery”. The original OS was installed on C: and anything I installed, downloaded, temporary internet files, etc always went on C:. The PC crashed recently and I had to do a whole new install of XP. Now I notice that everything I install automatically goes on D: instead of C: and it looks like XP installed itself on D: as well. Since the C: partition is vastly larger, I’m now always getting warnings that D: is running out of space. Many of the apps I install, either from CD or websites, don’t even prompt me with destination options, they just install on D: instead of C:.
Now, I’m not even concerned about the recovery anymore, so last night, I tried to do an FDISK and just start all over, with no partitions. It wouldn’t let me do it because it told me that files were in use. I had nothing running, but I’m sure they were just windows system files to run the system. Do you have any idea how I can correct this?
2006-08-09 07:32:25 · 2 answers · asked by ericmsdw2005 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
If you have XP CD with you then why worry. Put the CD and boot from CD. Start the installation and it will show you the current partitions and there you can select partitions and format it. Select C and ask to format. It will format C and will install the XP on C
2006-08-09 07:48:16 · answer #1 · answered by jay 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you want to totally start over, you can not run fdisk from windows. You need to make a boot disk and then run fdisk from the command prompt. That way windows is not running and you can delete your partitions and reinstall them. If you have further questions you can message me. Good Luck
2006-08-09 14:45:24 · answer #2 · answered by zippo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋