Partition C only formating with XP pro

[luke]

My Sata HD has 7  partitions.

I am trying to format only C: & do a clean install of XP, without loosing all the staff in the other partitions.

I did it a few times before, but this time booting in my win98 floppy does not work. Tried 2-3 floppies.

My "Paragon Partition Manager 8.0 Personal" cannot do it as is working within windows.

Tried various ways to get to the DOS prompt A:\ & use "fdisk or format" without success.

My Full XP CD can only format the whole HD.

Can any body help me please?                   luke

[raptorx]

7 partitions on one drive?

If I were you, I would backup all that data and reformat the entire drive for XP.  Or just get a separate HD for your OS and keep that drive for storage.

Other than that I don't know.

-Jim

[T1MT1M]

Your windows cd should be able to do it. Just put it in and when your on the choose your partition part of the installation press D to delete the C drive and then create a new partition using that space then use that.

But in saying that i do agree with raptorx because you are losing a fair bit of performance in having 7 partitions instead of just the 1.

[luke]

Thanx all,

Loosing performance, where or in what sense?

Are fs9 / x, word, web browising etc slower.

A few times formated C: only, but this time even the Full XP & XPpro CDs when run & ask to install XP it refuses saying you have a later version or another excuse.

I dual boot with Ubuntu & somebody sugested to use its "gParted" partitioning program running outside Windows & format C:, then clean install in it XP.

Has anybody tried it?            

[T1MT1M]

[quote]Thanx all,

Loosing performance, where or in what sense?

Are fs9 / x, word, web browising etc slower.

A few times formated C: only, but this time even the Full XP & XPpro CDs when run & ask to install XP it refuses saying you have a later version or another excuse.

I dual boot with Ubuntu & somebody sugested to use its "gParted" partitioning program running outside Windows & format C:, then clean install in it XP.

Has anybody tried it?            

[luke]

Thanx all again,

I did it, but don't ask how!. Out of all info received managed to concort something & finally with my "real XP install CD" for the upteenth time got the elusive list of partitions, deleted with closed eyes C:, then installed XP which formated C: first & the world is at peace again.

But you are not off the hook yet.

Evidently now the dual boot "boot.ini" is gone & I cannot find where I save the original.

1. Can you add to this below what is necessary to give me the "UBUNTU" option again?

[boot loader]
timeout=3
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows
XP"
/fastdetect

2. A different question now:-
I noticed my daughter going online with the internet connection light of her WIRED rooter flashing.

On investication we found that her Asus Wify was connecting to a wave from a near by wireless connection.

We quickly fixed her rooter & disabled what was working in Wifi.

Does this mean that while she was on it others were seeing her emails, letters, user names & passwords?.................... Perish the thought.               luke

[T1MT1M]

It is extremely unlikely that other people were seeing her stuff, unless you have some hackers living very near your house