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re: Trouble reinstalling WinXP after reformat
Thursday, July 3, 2008 at 10:20 am
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Posted by Davis (4 messages posted)


Thanks for the suggestions. I've formatted through XP as well. However, I still get the "XP needs compatible partition" message.


On Thursday, July 3, 2008 at 10:07 am, bob wells wrote:
>Davis,
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>Did you go into Bios Setup and set "Boot From CD" as first in Boot order.
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>Start Computer with WinXP CD In the CD/DVD drive and let XP do the Partitioning and
>Formatting for you. you may have missed a couple of steps using Partition Magic.
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>I would Suggest using a drive of this size as storage, rather than having Your OS
>on it.
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>BW
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re: Trouble reinstalling WinXP after reformat (bob wells: Thursday, July 3, 2008 at 10:07 am)

Responses to this message:
*re: Trouble reinstalling WinXP after reformat (bob wells: Thursday, July 3, 2008 at 10:38 am)
*re: Trouble reinstalling WinXP after reformat (appleoddity: Thursday, July 3, 2008 at 3:54 pm)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Trouble reinstalling WinXP after reformat (Davis: Thu, Jul 3, 2008, 9:23 am)
-re: Trouble reinstalling WinXP after reformat (Jacob6601: Thu, Jul 3, 2008, 9:56 am)
-re: Trouble reinstalling WinXP after reformat (Davis: Thu, Jul 3, 2008, 10:02 am)
*re: Trouble reinstalling WinXP after reformat (Deb: Thu, Jul 3, 2008, 10:13 am)
*re: Trouble reinstalling WinXP after reformat (alex: Thu, Jul 3, 2008, 2:40 pm)
-re: Trouble reinstalling WinXP after reformat (bob wells: Thu, Jul 3, 2008, 10:07 am)
-re: Trouble reinstalling WinXP after reformat (Davis: Thu, Jul 3, 2008, 10:20 am)
*re: Trouble reinstalling WinXP after reformat (bob wells: Thu, Jul 3, 2008, 10:38 am)
-re: Trouble reinstalling WinXP after reformat (appleoddity: Thu, Jul 3, 2008, 3:54 pm)
*re: Trouble reinstalling WinXP after reformat (Davis: Mon, Jul 7, 2008, 9:06 am)
*re: Trouble reinstalling WinXP after reformat (Jacob6601: Thu, Jul 3, 2008, 10:36 am)
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