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07-02-2003, 07:38 AM
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WinXP installed having problems.
I installed XP on my sisters new hardrive that someone had already to tried to install XP on and did not finish cause the disk said it was missing files.I put my XP disk in and installed.Well,after it had comepleted installation everything ran fine.I looked to see hardive details and it said it had used 4.5 gigs!! Is XP on there one full time, and one partial install?How can I wipe out everything and reinstall XP?Or fix this?
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07-02-2003, 07:43 AM
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boot with the xp cd chose setup and when it shows your drive select deleat partiton then have it make a new partiton and format using ntfs then it will install after it takes about 20 mins to format my 80gb drive and about 25 mins to copy files be for it needs your imput
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07-02-2003, 08:06 AM
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I did that on my sons PC.I clicked install then it had one partiton that was big ,the other was very small.I deleted the big one and went ahead with the install.I left the tiny partiton there.I dont remember making another patition.Is his comp going to be messed up?Or was that tiny partition enough. |
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07-02-2003, 12:04 PM
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go my computer and see how big the hdd is and if it shows 1 or 2 hdd and post back
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07-02-2003, 01:06 PM
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No ,it just shows one.But there is no reason to have used 4.5 gigs loading windows.
I had loaded on mine the day before with all my other stuff and used two gigs. I thought maybe where she had partially installed XP the day before on that new hardive it was in there still somehow. Last edited by warnerve12; 07-02-2003 at 01:10 PM. |
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07-02-2003, 01:15 PM
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size hd
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started out 37.5 after XP says 32.5 What is up with that. |
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07-03-2003, 12:17 PM
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open control panal addmin tools computer manigment drive manigment dose it show any unused space on the hdd
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07-03-2003, 01:56 PM
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what do u mean?
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I'm not quite understanding unused space.I cant find drive managment.Only disk managment.Explain again.Cause her comp. is running real slow. |
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07-03-2003, 02:13 PM
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ops i ment disk managment but we may be on crosed perposes hear witch pc are we truing to fix your sisters or your sons if its your sons i am checking if you used all the hdd
if it your sisters and you just want a clean install then folow my first post |
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