super_si

I was partitioning C:\ an its all gone ****, up

Xp's locked me out big time

Cant do anything

keeps saying press r at 1st screen which doesnt work

Cant install a new copy, because the boots discs get to 6 then says the OS has locked me out

How can i re- format???

or anything?

Si

Fosters

use a win98 start up disk, go into fdisk and delete the partition.

super_si

but i havent created a partition!

lpitt

Try this:

Use a Win98 boot disk.
Run FDISK /MBR which will reset the Master Boot Record on the hard disk.
Reboot with the boot disk.
Run FDISK and see what the disk thinks it has on it.
Delete everything
Reinstall WinXP PRO.

Hope this helps

Laurence

super_si

Yeah done all that now thanking you

Next task it i Need to dual boot! which is what i attemped but failed


IDEAS??

Mr Footlong

iTrader: (7)

What os are you dual booting with?
If it is say win9X/2k onwards, then the best way is to make 2 different partitions, install the 9x os first, then insert the XP disk and choose fresh install, not upgrade. Under advenced options during the 9x gui based setup, manually specify the path wich you want XP to install to, eg, c:\winxp, d:\winxp. let her run the first stage, she will reboot and carry on with the XP setup.

Hope this helps,

Nick

Mr Footlong

iTrader: (7)

also, if using 9x/xp, then use FAT32 only on both partitions, or FAT32 on c:, formatted as FAT32 and install 9x to this partition. then format/convert d: to NTFS and install XP to there. Don't make c: NTFS, as 9x won't be able to boot, if memory serves, the autoexec, config etc get stored on c: by default and 9x won't boot.

super_si

im trying to Dual boot 2k with Linux red hat 7.2?
Unless people reccomned other wise?

Andrewza

IIRC you can do that from the NT boot loader, but it's probably easier to do it from LILO or GRUB depending what you're using. Just google for a howto