I want to format my hardrive and reinstall a clean copy of XP - the drive was originally partitioned in two - one part was 60gig and the other 20gig........somehow when windows was installed it inadvertantly ended up in the 20gig section and i have never been able to find the missing 60gig, will this cause a problem when formatting??????? as i want the new installation to use the whole 80gig and no partitions.
2007-02-05 01:01:12 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
When you boot from the XP CD you are given the options of creating or deleting the partitions. Even though you can look up in the disc management (By right clicking on My computer and then selscting Manage and then disc) You can format the remaining 60GB and have it ready to use rather than deleting you XP and reinstalling....Advantage of having XP on 20 GB over having it on 80 GB is that its much faster and you can save your important data on the 60 GB without ever having to worry about XP going corrupt.
Thanks.
2007-02-05 01:14:10 · answer #1 · answered by sanjaykchawla 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you in all likelihood do not favor to do any of what you're planning. in case you do you'll lose each and every thing you want to shop and also you'll also favor to reinstall living house windows which might want to really be an absolute very last hotel. commence with assistance from uninstalling each and every of the undesirable software your son put in. some software has its personal uninstall option, some you ought to handle from the administration Panel (upload or eliminate software). next, get some good antivirus software (AVG loose is effective). deploy it and run an finished experiment on the finished equipment. that would want to freshen up lots. Now run a disk cleanup and empty the Trash Folder. Following that, run a defrag (in living house windows Explorer precise click on a hardchronic, go with houses, go with the equipment tab and it is on there). good success!
2016-11-02 09:18:08 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
there should be no problem. when you put in the windows cd and boot from it, you will come to a menu that will show you the partitions. from there, you have the option to delete the partitions and then reinstall xp. good luck!
2007-02-05 01:04:20 · answer #3 · answered by rchilly2000 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
this is an easy one, if you have the install disc for your OS (win xp sp2, in my case) all you have to do is put the disc in and restart the pc, the disc will reformat and get rid of the 2 seperate partitions leaving you with a clean slate for all your stuff minus the space it took for the OS
2007-02-05 01:06:16 · answer #4 · answered by karolinarydah 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you goto install it will ask which partition. delete both of them at that prompt and make one big partion. no need to create one. windows xp will create it automaticlly from all the free space.
then you will have one larger drive then two smaller ones.
2007-02-05 01:05:07 · answer #5 · answered by w2pc.com 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
format it using Slow NTFs format
2007-02-05 01:06:19 · answer #6 · answered by krandiash 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋