before installing XP on a fresh hard drive, how can i partition my hard drive??
2007-01-09 21:46:39 · 9 answers · asked by cykopath 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
If the hard drive is fresh, then when you load the XP disk on boot, it'll ask you about partitions, or at least it should because it'll partition the drive and then install XP. Are you trying to do dual boot? If so, just partition the drive to what you think is enough and then when XP is installed, install the other OS in XP on that side of the partition.
2007-01-09 21:52:06 · answer #1 · answered by simpsons_mail 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
At start up press whatever key to access the bios and set it to try to boot from CD first. Pop the CD in the player and restart your computer. The windows partition manager will come up. With partitions it really doesn't matter. Unless you want a dual boot system then just partition the drive to the size of the max space of the hard drive then format and install.
2007-01-10 01:15:48 · answer #2 · answered by The Master 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As I remember it the XP installer allows you to partition and format the drive as part of the installation process.
Alternatively, if you are adding this disk to an existing system, put the new disk in as a secondary (slave) drive, use the OS of the primary drive to partition & format it and then use partition magic or similar tool to copy the partition(s) off the old disk onto the new one - that way you avoid having to reinstall all your applications and patches and customisations... and you get to keep the old drive as a backup.
You'll need to mark the 'XP' partition of the new disk as active before it will boot.
2007-01-09 21:53:42 · answer #3 · answered by bambamitsdead 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
During the installation process when loading from the CD, it will ask how you want the drive partitioned. Then it will create the partition and format it for you.
2007-01-09 22:03:55 · answer #4 · answered by Dan821 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First of all you need dos bootable cd to boot your system from. Once it is booted from the cd, it will appear I think A:/>. Please type dir at a:/> to see if it is showing you dos commands. Now type Fdisk. Information on how to use fdisk to create partitions can be found here http://support.microsoft.com/kb/255867.
Once the partitions are created you can boot your pc with windowsxp bootable cd. During bootup it will ask you to boot your pc from the cd rom press any key and the setup is started. Give all the necessary information which it asks during setup and your fresh hard disk is ready to run windowsxp.
Hope it works.
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2007-01-09 21:56:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it is the only drive you are using on your computer then you need to create partitions by specifying size of each partition in the unpartitioned space, If there is single partition then you have to delete it to turn it into unpartitioned space before you can repartition it.
2007-01-09 21:55:10 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
do not do something to the one hundred sixty gb hdd. Your archives would be fantastic and could be available. If the os won't boot however the annoying tension nevertheless boots, you may attempt to do a restoration. this could attempt to restoration the os on the 40 gb hdd and is a lot speedier than re-setting up the os. It keeps maximum of your settings and put in application intact. If the 40 hdd does not boot, you will desire to replace it with a clean hdd. As reported in a prior answer, hdd's are inexpensive. purchase a clean - length is your decision. in case you partition it and place your archives on it, you need to use the 160gb hdd as a backup tension on your archives. this is consistently better to have your archives stored on a bodily separate hdd. you will desire to additionally evaluate burning your archives to CD's or DVD's. in case you have not have been given a burner, they are additionally very inexpensive. paying for and setting up you may still be a stable exceedingly if the advice is amazingly significant to you. stable success.
2016-10-30 12:35:55 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if u copy xp to a new drive, u will be infringing on copyright, as microsoft doesnt tolerate copying of its software. what do u mean by partiioning ur hard drive? u just need to format it and then u are ready to install
2007-01-09 21:52:08 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
just tell bios to boot from cd, then insert xp cd, go w/ the flow, you can create partitions and format it there
2007-01-09 21:53:11 · answer #9 · answered by Ken 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋