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Author can anyone give me a quick guide on how to partition a 200gig drive for winXP
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17th Oct 04 at 17:11   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
i gotta go and sort my mates new pc out for him tonight and set it up with o/s but i cant find my notes on partitioning a drive to work correctly and its been ages since i last done one i cant remember how to do it properly.

i know i gotta use fdisk off a floppy but thats about it lol. its a 200gig drive btw

can someone type me up a quick guide while im in the shower. im pretty desperate for this
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17th Oct 04 at 17:34   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
why does he need to partition it?

make sure that the bios is up-to-date and that it will detect the HD ok, then install the os, grab a copy of partition magic and use that - works a treat, and i find it alot easier than FDisk

otherwise, do a google for FDisk mate...its been a very very very long time since ive used it
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17th Oct 04 at 17:39   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
well its all brand new kit so should the motherfucker have the latest bios on it to detect the HD with no problems? or is it just gonna be pot luck?
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well its depends on the mobo mate but it should be fine, but its still worth grabbing the newest bios build

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17th Oct 04 at 17:42   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
i will just try and wing it with fdisk
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Wanna right click on my computer, then go to Manage, then Disk Management it's in there in XP
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17th Oct 04 at 18:18   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
ok, ignore that, Fdisk it
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Don't bother with fdisk... simply boot off the windows install cd and create the partition during the installation...
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17th Oct 04 at 20:24   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
yeah just boot off the windows CD and follow all the steps like tim said.

I think there was an issue with XP and 200gb drives. i believe that xp thought that it was smaller. Think that this has been fixed in updates or there may be a fix.

 
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