Thanks Mike.
I think the issue was that the user started the installation from within
windows 2000 before he had called me. I think setup was never even starting
from the CD. He later phoned me back to say that someone at his office
changed the boot order and that solved the problem. The problem was that he
did not tell me he had started the installation from windows 2000
beforehand, otherwise I would have tried the same.
I thought about it
"Mike" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Don't use FDisk use DELPART on a bootable CD or floppy.
>
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Hi All,
> >
> >I have a user trying to do a clean installation of XP on
> a T22 IBM thinkpad
> >that previous had a win2k preload on it.
> >
> >I had him boot from the XP CD, and I have walked him
> (over the phone)
> >through the text portion of setup to the point where you
> can select and
> >delete partitions. As this is a clean installation, I
> told him to delete the
> >partition.
> >
> >The problem is that when he tries to delete the
> partition, he gets the error
> >message:
> >
> >cannot delete the selected partition because windows
> needs this partition to
> >install xp (not sure if that is word for word, but
> something close to it.)
> >
> >I have been google searching for hours but no luck...his
> floppy is broken,
> >and I am trying to avoid walking him through making a
> bootable cd with fdisk
> >or another utility on it from another machine.
> >
> >Any ideas?
> >
> >
> >
> >.
> >
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