I am going to re-format my 40 gig HDD for reasons you do NOT want to wade through I currently have four partitions on a 40 gig HDD, two bootable c: w98; d: XP Pro. The W98 partition is wrecked and I also have wanted to setup a linux partition so I can learn that system and play around in the "open source" universe, so now's the time. The question is, given my 40 gig capacity, what is the optimal setup for the new partitions
View 13 RepliesSo I think I was affected by the SP3 update. I went out and got another harddrive to reinstall on since the other harddrive wouldn't even boot up. I can format the disc and the setup files load and then the system does the reboot. But after it reboots it ask me if I want to install XP and it takes me through the prompts of which drive I want to partition.
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I've setup Windows 2003 fax services on a W2K3 server and shared the device. I've tested faxing from Word on my PC and it works fine.However, when other users try to install the fax client, the setup hangs asking for the fx* setup files. I've tried different XPSP2 CDs, copying the files to a local directory, making sure that the users have local admin rights (and even domain admin rights) but to no avail. The files are already in the system32 directory so in theory the setup doesn't even need to copy them. Even if I delete them, it doesn't work.Our corporate SMS team reckons that there isn't any policy which could
cause the problem.
I started an upgrade for xp pro part way through the install I got a message "WatchDriverSigningPolicy.exe" no found I pressed enter then got another message "fake setup call himself instead original "setup.exe" ; setup abort!" now each time I reboot it starts to load xp then gives me the same message then press enter it then reboots.
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I don't know whats happening.I have just formated my C drive and installed fresh copy of windows xp.
here is image of error message.
what should i do?
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I installed Windows XP Home on a barebones computer, and mistakenly made the partition for the C drive much smaller (1.96 G with only 33MB free) than the D drive (1.6 G used, 24.9 G Free). Now I keep getting low disk messages. I want to resize the partitions so that the C Drive is larger without having to reformat both drives if that's possible. The file system on the C drive is NTFS and FAT32 on the D drive.CPU is 1.3 Ghz Athlon with 120 RAM.
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View 6 Replies View RelatedHey there, i'm currently running on Windows XP with a 120 gig Maxtor Harddrive. During my last reformat I'm guessing I did it wrong and mistakenly made a second partition while leaving the old one intact. I've checked through all my biggest storage heaps for what could be causing my HD to be so full. But my multimedia section is only 28 gigs, whereas the harddrive is showing 85 gigs worth of used space.
Multiple partitions is the only thing I can think of. So is there a way I could find out if I have an extra partition, which one is the right one to delete, and the process of deleting it, possibly without having to transfer all my files. Any help would be appreciated.
Does having multiple partitions on a hard drive speed up performance?
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View 2 Replies View Related1st post here and I hope someone has answers. THis is new to me. Ihave a 200gb HD. I have it partitioned into 5 partitions. Onepartition for my C: OS, D: Software, E: Games, F: Storage, G:Graveyard. Well I do this so if anything happens to my OS, I canreinstall and all my other info is safe. After the reinstall of myOS, everything was perfect, I had some issues with my G drive andaccess denied but I managed to take ownership. Well I installed someupdates etc last night and did some restarts without any issues. Idecided to do a disk check on G upon next boot up. Well I just bootedup this morning and only my C drive exists now, All my software whichis installed on my D drive is now inaccessable as well as all theothers. I went to Computer Management and it shows the rest of mypartition as 175gb of FREE SPACE?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a 200gb Seagate SATA HD. I have it partitioned into 5 partitions. One partition for my C: OS, D: Software, E: Games, F: Storage, G: Graveyard. Well I do this so if anything happens to my OS, I can reinstall and all my other info is safe. After the reinstall of my OS, everything was perfect, I had some issues with my G drive and access denied but I managed to take ownership. Well I installed some updates etc last night and did some restarts without any issues. I decided to do a disk check on G upon next boot up. Well I just booted up this morning and only my C drive exists now All my software which is installed on my D drive is now inaccessable as well as all the others. I went to Computer Management and it shows the rest of my partition as 175gb of FREE SPACE? Anyone has any ideas? There is no way that the rest of my drive is formatted as I never touched it so I assume it is still there.
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View 6 Replies View RelatedI had C: and D: and sense windows keeps be ing gay and needing reinstalls of fresh copies, I loose my games on C:. I dont have enuf space on D: to put games. So when I reinstalled XP today, befeore i installed I gave 2gb of unpartioned space to C: and now I cant access the other 30 or so gb. 1. How can I retrieve this 30 gb? A. Put it on D:? Or make a G Drive? ty
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a Windows XP home setup on a pentium IV system. I have two hard disks partitioned to give 3 partitions on one and two on the other. Quite often when I start windows it appears to boot normally but in Explorer I can only see the home partition. Explorer runs very slowly and crashes. I've checked for viruses, run adaware and spybot but can't fix it. I have AVG and sygate personal fire wall running.
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1) Is there a way to install XP over Vista directly?
I recently just fixed my computer so that I have two OS's running on two partitions.My new OS works fine, but the original one i can't get into because I get an error saying that hal.dll is invalid or corrupt.I figured that I need to repair my boot.ini to fix this problem, but that requires an OS CD, which sadly did not come with my computer. Is there a way of getting my operating disk? or is there another way to repair the boot.ini without the CD?
View 14 Replies View RelatedI am wanting to re-install windows as the computer no longer boots into windows.I have gone through the full f disk and format c: scenario while deleting creating partitions and then insert the CD to boot from so that the xp installation can begin.I feed the correct sata drivers and it finds the hard drive. here is where it goes wrong, I delete all the partitions listed and create a new one with the full 125gb of space. It then asks what i wish to format the partition with and i select NTFS. It goes to the screen signaling that it is beginning the installation but goes through it very quickly! as is complete in about 10 seconds, at this point it comes back and says "setup was unable to format this partition. The disk may be damaged "make sure the drive is connected to the computer etc etci don't think the drive is corrupt as it was working before i tried to restore my pc to a previous restore point when the pc was fully working after getting the pc back from a friend with missing registry files. (At which point i forgot the installation was also corrupt due to missing windows files, and not when i had successfully re-installed xp before lending the pc to a mate)
View 14 Replies View RelatedI have an issue here. I have a computer with a faulty version of Windows with some features missing. Basically, I have a Windows XP CD and I want to reinstall windows without reformatting. What i'm thinking of doing is setting up partitions C: <- For the new Windows Installation D: <- Previous Installation and maybe: E: <- Ubuntu F: <- Swap partition I don't want to use the previous installation, I jsut don't want to spend several days backing everything up.
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