Hello. I am in Japan and I bought a new HP laptop (I came with XP Home
Edition). As I develop internet pages in japanese I set up the XP Language as
Japanese. Now I want to partitionate my HDD with an English version of
Partiion Magic I own, but I can not use it as the file names use kana and it
may cause corruption on them and in the volume labels. Can I change XP's
language from japanese to english now? How? And would it resolve my problem?
Thank you very much.
Yo

Either purchase a Japanese version of Partition Magic
or perform a "clean install". You'll need to purchase
a "full version" of Windows XP English version.

Cannot Upgrade or Install a Different Language Version of Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;282089

Clean Install Windows XP
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

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"yo" wrote:

| Hello. I am in Japan and I bought a new HP laptop (I came with XP Home
| Edition). As I develop internet pages in japanese I set up the XP Language as
| Japanese. Now I want to partitionate my HDD with an English version of
| Partiion Magic I own, but I can not use it as the file names use kana and it
| may cause corruption on them and in the volume labels. Can I change XP's
| language from japanese to english now? How? And would it resolve my problem?
| Thank you very much.
| Yo

Hi,

I use an English version of Partition Magic on Japanese computers all the
time and never had any problems resizing the hard drives.

Jeff

"yo" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:1CB9F394-27AC-4002-92D4-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hello. I am in Japan and I bought a new HP laptop (I came with XP Home
> Edition). As I develop internet pages in japanese I set up the XP Language
> as
> Japanese. Now I want to partitionate my HDD with an English version of
> Partiion Magic I own, but I can not use it as the file names use kana and
> it
> may cause corruption on them and in the volume labels. Can I change XP's
> language from japanese to english now? How? And would it resolve my
> problem?
> Thank you very much.
> Yo