Problem in XP: Creating Partition on NTFS
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Problem in XP: Creating Partition on NTFS

 
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MaxIIF
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Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 12:08 am    Post subject: Problem in XP: Creating Partition on NTFS Reply with quote
In the course of doing a clean install for XP, I removed two partitions to
create one large one. Now I cannot create the new partition. XP gives me a
message (after both fast and slow options) that I either need to check my
harddrive to see if it is turned on, that it is damaged, or a SCSI (which has
a host of other issues). It is a IDE 58Gb Maxtor and my Compaq recovery
diagnostic seems to think everything is fine with the harddrive? Any
suggestions? I'm trying "format c:" from the XP Recovery Mode.
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R. C. White
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Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 2:42 am    Post subject: Re: Problem in XP: Creating Partition on NTFS Reply with quote
Hi, Max.

I'm not sure what you mean by "the XP Recovery Mode". Do you mean the
Recovery Console, reached by booting from the WinXP CD-ROM and choosing
Repair? You should not need that for this project.

Can't you simply boot from the WinXP CD-ROM and press Enter to Install
WinXP? This should bring you to a screen that lets you create a partition,
including deleting existing partitions if necessary. Then you can format
that partition as NTFS.

RC
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Microsoft Windows MVP

"MaxIIF" <MaxIIF@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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In the course of doing a clean install for XP, I removed two partitions to
create one large one. Now I cannot create the new partition. XP gives me
a
message (after both fast and slow options) that I either need to check my
harddrive to see if it is turned on, that it is damaged, or a SCSI (which
has
a host of other issues). It is a IDE 58Gb Maxtor and my Compaq recovery
diagnostic seems to think everything is fine with the harddrive? Any
suggestions? I'm trying "format c:" from the XP Recovery Mode.
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