i bought a pc with 1 hard drive C: and it came with a recovery cd ,not a windows xp cd. i managed to partition the drive but cant put a different operating system on the other partition. i partitioned the drive using partition magic 8. Any help would be great!
2006-11-01 02:51:15 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
i already tried to install windows from the boot cd at start up but it only sees the original hard drive C: not the partitioned part d: however in my computer i can see them both.
2006-11-01 07:26:42 · update #1
You can purchase Acronis Disk Director Suite. ADDS is very reliable and simple hdd manager that enables to run and manage multiple partitions on your pc. Also using ADDS you can resize, move, copy, split, and merge partitions without data loss as well as recover accidentally deleted partitions.
2006-11-02 02:00:16 · answer #1 · answered by S&H 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I use gparted it is a free program that does everything I have ever needed it to do. With GParted you can accomplish the following tasks: Create a partition table on a disk device. Enable and disable partition flags such as boot and hidden. Perform actions with partitions such as: create or delete resize or move check label copy and paste
2016-05-23 02:20:44 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If your second operating system is linux then you dont need to worry as most linux distros will install without fuss and will use a linux boot manager (such as grub or lilo) so that you can select which partition to load every time.
If your second os is going to be windows again, perhaps you might need to buy a program such as boot magic.
2006-11-01 03:01:01 · answer #3 · answered by str1der 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
~Why not just place the installation CD and when it asks for the file location point it to the new partition.
2006-11-01 05:40:20 · answer #4 · answered by Siu02rk 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it is so easy if you windows XP and you want winows me
just put theCD in the CD drive and restart the computer
when you are asked where to install the windows choose the D:
and go on
2006-11-01 03:11:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
partition may not be properly formated either ntfs or fat32 file system
win 98/me run on fat32.
xp runs on ntfs or fat 32
2006-11-01 10:20:22 · answer #6 · answered by species8472 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can give you a link that deals with hard drive problems.
Some hard drive problems can be easily fixed yourself by using easily available tools. I found the info at http://fixit.in useful
2006-11-01 11:50:57 · answer #7 · answered by blsruthi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋