How To Change System Partition
Aug 1, 2010
I have two hard drives in my computer, the first with Windows XP installed and the second with Windows XP x64 and Windows 7 installed. I never use Windows XP anymore so my plan was to delete it and copy the 64 bit installation to that drive, but as it turns out the XP partition is the system partition. From what I've read in similar topics, I could format the drive and then use the Windows 7 disk to do a startup repair. As a test I set the XP partition to inactive and used the Windows 7 disk, I learned that the disk dosent even see the Windows 7 installation unless the XP partition is active, it also tells me that Windows 7 is installed on drive C which is false. I figured these tings would work themselves out and deleted the XP partition anyway. I had to recover it to get my computer to boot again but now it goes straight into 7 without giving me the choice to boot into XP or XP 64. Is my problem a little more complex because im working with three operating systems? Please tell me what I can do to fix all of this and achieve my original goal.
View 5 Replies
ADVERTISEMENT
Apr 22, 2007
What are the steps needed to access one of my partitions, delete it, then use 1/2 the space and apply to system drive and the other 1/2 to another partition?
View 5 Replies
View Related
Jul 7, 2010
Now I am having multiple new problems. I want to completely erase the hard drive and install a new version of XP Home, not Pro. At the beginning of the installation process, it gathers system info. Immediately it responds with "no valid system partition" and the only option is to exit from the process. How can I get past this to complete the installation?
View 14 Replies
View Related
May 12, 2007
I did a re-install today and somehow screwed up on the partitions. The partition I was going to install XP on was supposed to be 10g, but for some reason it turned out to be 1.4g.Can I change this and add more space, without messing up the OS? Is there a free program out there that'll do this?
View 4 Replies
View Related
Jul 30, 2005
I used partition magic 8 to essentially resize a partition (smaller) and add a new partition. The system rebooted after a reboot request. then when it restarted, it asked to reboot again. I said Ok, no problem. Then when it rebooted again, when trying to start up , it went to a black screen that said "windowssystem32configsystem is currupt or missing". Im a designer, not a tech guy, but im thinking that the repartition software may not have recorded (updated partition info file?) properly, and now the system doesnt know where the windows OS is? Pleeese help - im afraid to use the repair console, and tried to reinstall windows over the current system (as a last resort) but it said it cant do that either because a certain folder did not exist. Note im on my laptop now (problem on desktop).What do you think and what can i do? Do i need to put another HD in my computer with windows on it, boot to it, and manipulate the problem ( currnt drive) with the newley added drive with windows on it? I have no idea, just a thought. I'll be happy to provide any further details. Please help me out.
View 11 Replies
View Related
Jun 28, 2010
Well this issue is really simple, I have two operating systems: Windows XP Home Edition and Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx installed on my computer, both systems are installed into a single HD, each on its own partition.
My HD is 120 GB and I have 60 GB for Win and 60 GB for Ubuntu, my question is: Is there any way to safely change this partition size WITHOUT uninstall any of my OS? I've been using my computer for about 6 months with this partitions, which means that my two systems have some applications and programs installed and I feel really lazy about reinstalling Ubuntu and all my programs just because I want to change my partition size; of course if there is no other solution I'll have to do it, I know this works because I partitioned my Win 120 GB partition to accomodate Ubuntu when I installed it, using the partition wizard that comes with the Ubuntu installation program.
View 5 Replies
View Related
Aug 26, 2007
i reformatted my windows partition to try and solve a constant crash problem.my hd is divided up into 2 partitions with the second being where i stored all my data and mp3's.I only formatted the windows partition and now my second partition is inaccessable.The drive letter has also changed from k to d..i tried changing the drive letter back to k and the partition was still inacessable.Any help would be awsome on this.I would hate to lose 100+ gigs of data
D: is not acessable
the file or directory is corrupted and unreadable
View 4 Replies
View Related
Jan 8, 2007
I read the manual of Partition Magic v.6, it says that if the partition that contains system files is greater than 7.8 gig then it may not boot. Is it true or there is something I don't understand here? Since I like to run many applications I like to enlarge to about 10 gig but it scare me.
View 5 Replies
View Related
Jun 15, 2007
Some time ago I booted up my computer,to find that my XP switched to Windows classic style,I didn't take it seriously so I went to properties to change when I get an error message saying there is a problem with run32.dll,not only that,but the visual styles can't load I assume,becuase of run32.dll,so now I'm stuck with the piece of s*** style.
View 10 Replies
View Related
Jan 13, 2006
Some old BASIC programs to run that's why I decided to install Win98 on the other partition of my hard disk.Is it possible to install 98 if I already have XP?
View 8 Replies
View Related
Sep 12, 2005
I'm currently ruing Win XP Pro on my PC. When I installed the system, I only allocated 20GB for the system partition. As time goes and installation appls, the system drive disk space only has 15% disk space left. I have another 10GB partition (d: drive) which has become available but it resides on a separate physical hard disk.The only option that I can think of is to uninstall the appls and reinstall it on this spare drive to free up disk space on system drive. It involves quite bit of work which I do not wish to do if and only if this is the only solution.Can I expand the system drive to include this "D:" as part of the system drive(single logical partition).
View 16 Replies
View Related
Oct 4, 2007
Until recently, my computer's single 120GB hard drive has been partitioned like so:
C: - ~5GB, active partition with boot.ini etc, used as a recovery partition D: - ~110GB, extended partition with Windows Last night I finally took the plunge and, using Paragon Partition Manager, got rid of the C: partition seeing as I never used its contents, and extended the D: patition to take up the free space created. I then made the D: partition PRIMARY and ACTIVE.To boot into XP, I then used a boot disk from here.windows started fine, and everything was dandy. I copied the BOOT.ini, NTLDR, NTDETECT.COM files across to D:, removed the boot disk and rebooted.'Invalid System Disk'. I'm still unable to boot without a boot CD.
View 1 Replies
View Related
May 9, 2005
up to recently I had a Multi boot system, i have a 120gb HD it had 20gb for XP for my Famliy, 70gb for me, and 20 for backup. I Decided to make a pc for everyone else and once i copied there files with Partition Magic formated there partition which was C:, now i cant access my partition
View 5 Replies
View Related
Feb 2, 2006
Cannot get Partition Magic * to installon my Windows XP computer.
View 12 Replies
View Related
May 1, 2007
how to create a system partition on which is ONLY the Operating System, and what letter to give it?When working with EVERYTHING ELSE, I want it to go onto a separate partition.I created a 2Gig partition and installed a fresh copy of WinXP Pro - it automatically became C: drive.I created and formatted the rest of a 200Gig disk and called it drive K:Continuing on, everything I have installed and worked with [including importing (some of) Outlook Express files] goes to C: too. It is now completely full and only some of my Outlook Express files got transferred.
View 14 Replies
View Related
Jan 20, 2007
I was reformating my pc and when i clicked to delete a partition it said it was unable to delete it thus not being able to continue reformatting. I tried almost everything (making a boot disk,...) and i dont knoe whats wrong. I've been able to reformat before but i dont know why. My system is NTFS I'd
View 6 Replies
View Related
Jul 18, 2008
all the data is intact I'm currently on a live distro of linux on my ipod.I was messing with the partitions ONLY ON MY IPOD on paragon partition manager.it prompted me to restart to finish and it seemed to lake a LONG timeit gave an error message saying if the part was bootable to redo LILOnow it won't boot windows and I HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO FIX IT!!!
View 8 Replies
View Related
Aug 16, 2005
How do I make the second partition, which includes all files from another hard drive, pretend that it is the main partition? I want to simulate the second partition being my main one for a while.
OR
How do I resize system partitions?
View 14 Replies
View Related
Nov 16, 2007
I have my Windows format disc and I want to create another partition with it. I tried to create one, but it said something like "You have no more space to create another partition because you used up all your space on your Windows primary partition". See, when I reformatted my computer a while back I just created 1 partition for Windows and applied all the space onto that partition.
If there is a way I could remove some space off of my Windows primary partition and create another partition with the space I removed. I want to do this so I can put general things in my other partition such as documents, music, etc. and just leave the other partition for Windows and programs.
View 1 Replies
View Related
Feb 5, 2008
I bought a new computer.It appears to have been partitioned into a NTFS format and FAT32 format.The default drive for my documents & my pictures etc is the NTFS which I have been using happily. It is Media Centre Edition so I also have a few large files (>4GB) - though I dont keep them long term.NTFS partition has fulled up - but I cant move my large files to other partition to free up space
I've done a little bit of reading but my question is "Should I reformat the FAT32 to make it more of use to me?".I cant really see the need arising to access older OS files, except .JPG's (photo's I had on my old Windows ME Comp) or "Should I move all my smaller files (documents and photo's) to the FAT32 partition and use the NTFS drive for the bigger files?"
View 10 Replies
View Related
Nov 23, 2008
Umm yea I am normally decent with pcs but recently after I let my friend use it for the weekend there are things wrong such as. Speed Slowed, Some AV software saying 146 infections. I dont know how to explain the problem.
But When I go to use it now it just ignores my pressing. Im kinda getting pissed since no recovery CDs. It is Windows XP Home Edition says on sticker. Is it possible to boot the D: drive (The recovery partition) with command prompt. Or am I screwed since it just ignores me pressing f10.
View 2 Replies
View Related
Aug 16, 2009
My Dell Inspiron B130 Windows Xp SP3 had only one internal hard drive, it was broken up into Drive C and two nameless partions that I did not make I accidentley deleted one of the namless partitions and now my windows XP SP3 laptop is no longer bootable. My computer just says no bootable drive found. I think I deleated some important system data My personal data on Drive C appears to be still there is there any way I can recover the system data or make my laptop bootable again without losing all of my data?
View 1 Replies
View Related
Mar 25, 2008
Yesterday, I had to perform a new installation of Windows XP because I somehow corrupted some system files beyond repair. Now I have everything up and running anew and have made all the Windows updates and it's all honky dory. However, I just went to the Disk Managent Console with the intention of re-assigning drive letter for my storage partitions (not the one that contains Windows) and ran into a problem.I have a partition set up on my main hard disk to use exclusively for Window's pagefile. I have not yet set up Windows to put the pagefile there. This is the next partition after the primary partition that contains the OS. I wanted to set the drive letter of this partition to Z: to get it out of the way in Windows Explorer.
View 10 Replies
View Related
May 23, 2005
Is it possible for me to use the system repair tool (the one that comes up when you boot from the Windows XP CD and press R at the menu) to format only a specific partition on a hard drive, or do you always have to erase the whole drive.
View 10 Replies
View Related
Apr 3, 2005
Hide any of hard disk partition from being seen in My Computer.
View 6 Replies
View Related
Nov 23, 2008
My hard disk arrangement is C(primary partition FAT32)for Windows XP
D(extended logical FAT32) for non-os data (movies, pictures etc..)
F(primary NTFS) for Vista..
I am formatting F: and then C: through XP installation CD
(and C->NTFS from FAT32)
is this ok???
will D: be accessible after installing XP on C???
View 4 Replies
View Related
Dec 31, 2009
I would like to know if it´s possible to take free space from an extended partition and redistribute it to a primary partition using partition magic 8.0..both partitions are NTFS
View 1 Replies
View Related
Mar 9, 2010
I understand the need for system restore to be enabled on the C: drive. But should it be enabled on the d: drive/recovery partition?
View 1 Replies
View Related
Sep 20, 2008
I've had some trouble last week were I got the BSOD, due to some problem with the registry, I couldn't find a solution and so bought a new SATA hard drive and installed XP on it (as i couldn't reinstall it on my old one for fear of losing all my files etc). Now however, after moving all my files into the new harddrive (where XP now seems to be), I want to format the old C: drive but the computer management console isn't allowing me to as the "system" partition is still on the old C: drive.In short, is there anyway to move that partition to the new F: drive where the boot partition is?
View 14 Replies
View Related
Jul 25, 2005
My existing C: drive. First I was getting the "Error 983" error. Then I un-installed SP2 which was causing a gang of problems, freezing programs for a couple mins mostly. After I got it uninstalled I did a disk defrag, then a chkdsk /f. Now I have partitioned the drive using PM8 again and this time after the reboot it is telling me it is completed but once Windows XP reboots there is no new partition.
Im trying to install Suse Linux 9.0. But I really want to have 2 new partitions, one for Suse, and the other as a back up.
View 5 Replies
View Related
Apr 9, 2010
what are the steps to create partition using Paragon Manager?
View 1 Replies
View Related
