Windows Re-install
08-07-2003, 08:13 PM
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all you elite haxors..... 
here is the deal....if you have the 2 HDD partitioned you esentially have 4 assigned drives. a C: D: E: F: if C: D: are on the same HDD formatting C: will not format drive D: this can be said of the other HDD as well. the beauty of this is that on one drive you can asign a specific amount of space for your OS install, and the rest can be used as storage. so lets say you install windows on root c:, and save all your my documents, and kaaza shared folders, **** you name it on root d:. if your windows install ******* hits the *******....(which happens ofter) you can format and reinstall the OS on c: and your seperate NTFS partition on d: won't have been touched, and be picked up instantly by the new install.
08-07-2003, 08:37 PM
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My problem is that disk1 was 1 partition c: and disk2 was 2 partitions d: and linux. I'm getting rid of linux(for now). so now I have a lot of unpartitioned space on hd2. I'll figure it out when I get to it. ha
08-08-2003, 11:46 AM
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OK, so I tryed this last night and it sort of worked. It let me redo the partitions, but didn't give me an option to reformat. That wasn't too big a deal. Once it got up and running again I go to d: and it says not formatted do I want to. So I click yes. After a while I get an error that says disk in d: is not formattable. Whats up with that? I'll probably try again later, but does anyone know whats going on?
08-08-2003, 12:05 PM
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Okay here is what you need to do.
If this HDD is secondary, you can boot up windows on the main one and go to my computer. Right click on the drive and go to format.
If it's not, boot up your computer with either a win98 or ME boot disk.
Choose to boot up without CD-ROM support and then you'll get a prompt.
Type A:\FDISK
Delete the primary DOS partition.
Then create a new primary DOS partition.
Exit FDISK and you should be back at the DOS prompt.
Type format C:\
Give it some time.
Hope this helps!
If this HDD is secondary, you can boot up windows on the main one and go to my computer. Right click on the drive and go to format.
If it's not, boot up your computer with either a win98 or ME boot disk.
Choose to boot up without CD-ROM support and then you'll get a prompt.
Type A:\FDISK
Delete the primary DOS partition.
Then create a new primary DOS partition.
Exit FDISK and you should be back at the DOS prompt.
Type format C:\
Give it some time.
Hope this helps!
08-08-2003, 04:37 PM
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This is XP so I thought DOS was hard to get into or something...
well I used my computer to try and do it and got that error. So I'll mess around more later. Thanks guys.
Another thing, I was thinking of using the repair console to repartition and format everything and then use the install cd to start over again. Does that seem like it will work?
well I used my computer to try and do it and got that error. So I'll mess around more later. Thanks guys.
Another thing, I was thinking of using the repair console to repartition and format everything and then use the install cd to start over again. Does that seem like it will work?
08-08-2003, 05:05 PM
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Seriously reformat both drives using a bootdisk, it will solve all of your problems.
Then get Drive Image and make a backup of your HDD in a pristine condition. That way, if stuff gets fucked up, just load the backup and all is well.
Then get Drive Image and make a backup of your HDD in a pristine condition. That way, if stuff gets fucked up, just load the backup and all is well.