Comments on: STEP 20 : Prepare the Hard Drive(s)

By: Faded Records

Faded Records — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 00:06:00 +0000

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By: best registry cleaner

best registry cleaner — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 08:55:00 +0000

I’ve tried that way, too, but that didn’t worked. I’ve found how to format my drive, I change my SATA cable no1 to my new hard drive, and I let my old hard drive not connected. When I insert Windows XP installer, it was recognized and I do the installation as usual. After all installation process done, I connect my old hard drive to SATA port no.2 and now my PC boot from new hard drive. But now I found something strange and a little disturbing me, my partition where I put all program not labeled C but E. Can anybody help me how to change it to C? Because label C has been used for removable drive slot on my printer (my printer has USB slot for UFD, HP Photosmart D5160).

By: just anyone

just anyone — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:36:40 +0000

WTF are you talking about?

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 11:45:18 +0000

i just used norton partition magic. works fine so far, even though norton and i don’t get along very well….

By: GreatEmerald

GreatEmerald — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:22:18 +0000

This is 100% correct You should always, at all times have a GPartEd disc just in case something wrong happens with the partition setup or if you plan to install any new OS (especially Windows, Linux have rather good partition managers themselves).
Strange that even after all these years, even Windows 7 has a really poor partition editor with no options whatsoever. The default option is to move all the data from the existing partition (if you happen to select a partition that isn’t formatted yet) to a subfolder, and there’s no way to tell it to format it instead… *sigh*

By: Jim Johnson

Jim Johnson — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 06:58:34 +0000

Shouldn’t you have a section describing the procedure in this chapter for NTFS rather than FAT 32?

By: Marc Klink

Marc Klink — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 02:30:12 +0000

Or, you can simply boot up a CD that has GPartEd on it, and do away with all the archaic, unreliable, slow garbage that Microsoft has forced for years.

By: Diana

Diana — Sun, 18 May 2008 20:13:48 +0000

I’ve done this so many times that I’ve been skipping steps and forgetting about it. Naturally, I kept getting unfamiliar error messages and didn’t know how to deal with them. Thanks to this site I found just to ignore it and go on. That simple instruction saved us about $50 and a week.