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How to undo failed install
Note: If you are "clean" installing Windows 2000, XP Home or XP Pro, and do not wish to multi-boot your system, you do not have to run fdisk before hand as, during the install process, options for creating partitions are built in. WARNING: Using fdisk to "resize" or recreate a partition will effectively destroy

Partitioning - FAQ contrib
Also regarding partitioning, if I create three primary partitions and one extended partition on the hard drive, do I also need to specify how many volumes and the size of each volume in the extended partition during the install, or can I decide the number and size of volumes at a later time and use XP disk

disk partition question
If you want to incorporate the remainder of the hard drive space into the C drive, you have a couple of choices: 1) Run Setup again, using an XP slipstreamed with SP2 install CD that you create, deleting the current C partition and then creating a new partition that incorporates the entire size of the drive,

Partitioning a 200 GB disk with windows 2000 professional
Press F8 to continue the install 7. Continue on until you get to the partitioning. Make sure you don't fumble the ball like I did. 8. Continue to the end of set up. Change boot priority in BIOS to first boot from HD (see HD selection in BIOS too) before you examine that it works. *You're not finished yet.

hung boot process
The / partition is FULL! Now, how can this be, if the entire install will be less than 3 gigs? I've seen this repeatedly on both drives. With luck, someone will have a ready-made answer. If not... Just to be clear on my end, I'm assuming: - you have not tried a custom partitioning install - you did NOT use PM to

partitioning and adding w98 to windows xp
Do not use the escape key technique to install Vista and you will have a boot options menu showing "Older Version of Windows" and "Microsoft Vista". If you run Vista setup from the XP desktop and simply select your desired partition for installation your disk drive lettering will align between the two systems.

Can't install bootcamp??? All I did was partition my hard disk...
DL wrote: In order to use the full amount of disk space both your bios and the version / sp level of Win you are installing needs to support large disks. Doesn't XP "automatically" support large HDs? I have a 300G on my XP desktop system in the house. You cannot expand the windows partition, to utilise the full

windows xp installation problem?
Doug Knox MS-MVP wrote: When you install from within a Windows OS, you won't get the partitioning/formatting options, you can only choose what partition to install to. In addition to booting from the CD, you can use a Win9x boot disk and use X:\I386\WINNT to start setup. But as this copies a large number of files

Install partitioning problem
Sandgroper steve...@KNICKERSiinet.net.au linux redhat install "harry" <a...@abc.com> wrote in message news:EwOnh.26431$k74.2579@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk... trying to install whitehat 4 respin 1 on a x86 PC because I don't really understand linux partitioning I choose "automatically partition" and then "keep all

Bug#364409: FWD: Re: Bug#364409: Partitioning failure during ...
I'm kickin' m'self for not partitioning it, it runs as a single 40G and has plenty of room (about half). There's nothing wrong with this now but maybe I could have avoided future issues. I use the excuse that the array had been committed before I got to it, it's pretty lame because I had to install from scratch

Disk partitioning question
The short of the long (an afternoon's worth) is that I had to - append brokenmodules=pata_ali in the kernel appends - select kernel safe-mode - assign a swap "file" instead of a swap partition and this file had to go on a preformatted non-swap partition that is not targetted for installation.

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I create partition because if Windows' installer don't see target partition until installation so if I create partition under windows installer and specify partition for installer the boot files When I install windows I have created partition for it under vista PE (subj of win vista installation environment).

Post install partitioning
Bit Twister BitTwis...@localhost.localdomain alt os linux mandrake On Mon, 05 Jul 2004 14:02:12 GMT, Crashdamage wrote: This is a little off-topic, but.. Really, anything over 500MB swap is just a waste, over 200MB probably. You should need less with more RAM, not more. Some people run with no swap at all.

Help 10.3 a mess After YOU Upgrade
Barry A. Watzman Watz...@neo.rr.com microsoft public windowsxp help_and_support The XP install program will examine your disk, list all of the partitions on it and will ask you explicitly which partition you want to install to. If an OS is already present in that partition, it will be upgraded.

Moving from W2k to XP with a Big HD
DL address@invalid microsoft public win2000 general In order to use the full amount of disk space both your bios and the version / sp level of Win you are installing needs to support large disks. You cannot expand the windows partition, to utilise the full disk size, if you have installed with a sp level of win

Help with New Install and Partitioning
Alexander Skwar alexan...@skwar.name comp unix solaris Connie <Connie...@gmail.com>: I will mirror (using Veritas) the system drive - one of the smaller Where's the advantage in using Veritas? Did Solaris 8 not allow to create mirrors using md? Alexander Skwar.

XP won't see entire 320 GB drive
ynotssor ynots...@example.net linux redhat In news:ELOnh.26434$k74.376@text.news. blueyonder.co.uk, harry <a...@abc.com> wrote: because I don't really understand linux partitioning I choose "automatically partition" and then "keep all partitions and use existing free space" BUT when I click next I get an error saying

Partitioning fresh install on clean hard drive?
Werner Opriel w....@gmx.de linux debian bugs dist linux debian maint boot Package: installation-reports Severity: important -- Package-specific info: Boot method: cd Image version: netinst i386 13.02.2008 Date: <Date and time of the install> Machine: Acer Extensa 5220 Partitions: <df -Tl will do; the raw partition

installing XP
Installing W95 will lose your ability to boot to DOS without using a boot floppy. It is possible to change this using a trick, but floppies are good enough. I boot to W98, install Partition Magic again and test. I put in my WNT disk and repeat the steps above. Problems which can arise: 1. If my NT partition isn't

Partition Reorganization
Anyway, I'm now resolved to installing 2008.0 from scratch to a two drive RAID-1 array. I found this: http://www.linux-corner.info/swraid.html with instructions for installing Mandriva on a RAID array. However, it says that when you get to the partitioning step you can create RAID partitions rather than ext3