Re:Got two copies of WinXP (to John John)

Dee

John John,

Thank you for your help and information. I followed your instructions, using
delpart to delete the system partitions and fdisk where needed to create the
first new partition, and used Windows Disk Management tools where required.
Your help got me going again, and it worked perfectly. The computer is now
up and running and the backdoor has been eliminated.

I previously had no idea how to proceed; I am very grateful for your help.

Dee.



<John John wrote

<Do you want to keep anything at all on this first hard disk? If not
<boot the computer with a Windows 98 boot disk and use fdisk to remove
<all the partition then create only one of the desired size to install
<Windows XP on. Don't format the partition, Windows 98 can only format
<to FAT32 and you don't really want that, after you create the new
<partition with fdisk just exit and see if your XP setup cd can take it
<from there and format the partition NTFS for you. You can create other
<partitions with the XP Disk Management Tool after Windows XP is installed.

<If you get caught up in a logical drive loop error with fdisk and find
<that you cannot delete partitions get delpart.exe
< and copy it to the Windows 98
<floppy, you can use it to deleted NTFS drives.
<
<John

<

John John (MVP)

You're welcome, I'm glad to see that you got things straightened out.

John

Dee wrote:

> John John,
>
> Thank you for your help and information. I followed your instructions, using
> delpart to delete the system partitions and fdisk where needed to create the
> first new partition, and used Windows Disk Management tools where required.
> Your help got me going again, and it worked perfectly. The computer is now
> up and running and the backdoor has been eliminated.
>
> I previously had no idea how to proceed; I am very grateful for your help.
>
> Dee.
>
>
>
> <John John wrote
>
> <Do you want to keep anything at all on this first hard disk? If not
> <boot the computer with a Windows 98 boot disk and use fdisk to remove
> <all the partition then create only one of the desired size to install
> <Windows XP on. Don't format the partition, Windows 98 can only format
> <to FAT32 and you don't really want that, after you create the new
> <partition with fdisk just exit and see if your XP setup cd can take it
> <from there and format the partition NTFS for you. You can create other
> <partitions with the XP Disk Management Tool after Windows XP is installed.
>
> <If you get caught up in a logical drive loop error with fdisk and find
> <that you cannot delete partitions get delpart.exe
> < and copy it to the Windows 98
> <floppy, you can use it to deleted NTFS drives.
> <
> <John
>
> <
>
>