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re: Trouble reinstalling WinXP after reformat
Monday, July 7, 2008 at 9:06 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Davis
(4 messages posted)
Thanks for the help everyone. I gave up, so what I did was wipe all the partitions
off the harddrive and started over completely with just one partition. I do believe
the problem was partition magic mixing up which partition was logical and which was
primary.
On Thursday, July 3, 2008 at 3:54 pm, appleoddity wrote:
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>XP is touchy how the partitions are setup. If you are using partition magic to
manipulate
>the partitions you have probably done some damage.
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>But, booting from the XP Cd, deleting the parition, and recreating it should solve
>the problem. There should be about an 8MB free space not partitioned one you do
>this.
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>XP is probably just getting confused because you used parition magic.
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>Ultimately, you will need to back the data up to a different drive, then delete
all
>partitions with the XP cd, reboot for good measure, then recreate the two new partitions
>again using XP setup. Transfer the data back as necessary.
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