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HELP!! my power went out in the middle of a format :( |
anish
Joined: Jul 19, 2003
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From: India / England
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Have a look (search) at this forum or post your question there.
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lowrida5656
Joined: Aug 17, 2003
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From: Melbourne, Australia
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ok ive put a old hd in and installed xo on it.. i tryed formatting it from windows (the 40gig one) and i put i made it ntfs by formatting thrue windows but its still 1.99gig... do i need to do it form dos? also with my old 1 i put in i formatteed it then installed win98 then installed xp.. and its file sysdtem is fat32.. how do i make it ntfs and how do i install xp without installing 98 first because i have the full version of xp not just the upgrade version.. |
Bjerkebanen
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i hope everything sortes out for u m8
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Payalnik
Joined: Jan 01, 2004
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From: Moscow
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Dear Lord, what are you all talking about? Boot xp, press windows+r, type discmgmt.msc! That is a cool built-in utility for partitioning and formatting!
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Jim
Joined: Jan 20, 2002
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From: Belgium
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Dont know if you allready tryed that
Go to the Bios set the first boot device as the CDrom, the other boot device you set them on none or HDD-0. Place the WinXP cd, reboot the computer, wait a bit until you get a message "press any key to boot from cd" ( or something like that ), wait a little bit, do not press on the F ( F1-F2-F3-...) keys, just wait until you come to a "installation" screen ... install windows, it will ask on wich partition, you delete any partition you can find, make a new one, go to next step of installing Windows, format the HD in ntfs, after that it will install XP and voila ( well normaly  )
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Payalnik
Joined: Jan 01, 2004
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That's a nice idea!
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lowrida5656
Joined: Aug 17, 2003
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From: Melbourne, Australia
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thx for ur help.. i used that disc managment thing and got my 40gig hd workin, but my 60gig hd (which had all my stuff on it) crashed sumtime but i ran a program put all my stuff onto the 40 gig 1 and then reformatted my 60gig 1.. it was all good after that |
*Jojo*
Joined: Oct 15, 2003
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Really a work of art and for the labor of his job as a mod for @masseur here - a very detailed instruction on how-to's for a novice (just like me) . . . Maybe I guess the poster should also buy a power regulator with a standby time of at least 2 hours, just in case of a power outage again ... |
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Posted: 2004-02-05 15:32
