OK, so I turned off the computer, and then turned back on. I got the XP
splash screen, then it went into the same message about converting. It wanted
to run checkdisk, and I remember I had allowed it yesterday. Was no bad
sectors or corrupt files, so today I cancelled it. Went to the same screen
for converting, and I settled back to see what would happen. In less than 5
minutes, it fired up, and I was off and running.
Rich:
Thanks for the advice. Sort of what I expected, but nice to have a
confirmation of sorts.
"Rich Barry" wrote:
> I think that C: being the system partition would be more
> problematic. Try what you said, I think it would present less of a problem.
> "Dsquared" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:01F569D8-2C46-4B2D-8980-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Dom't know if you can help or not.
> >
> > My Brother-in-law has a Dell Dimension 2600 running XP HE. IHe had
> > problems
> > with slow performance. P4 with 512MB Ram; I upgraded to 2GB. Tried to
> > defrag;
> > ran fo 15 hours, and kept resetting. While starting defrag, I noticed Dell
> > had installed as FAT32 system; C and D partition.
> >
> > I had BIL abort defrag and restart. Worked OK. Then I went to his place,
> > and
> > did convert. First D:, no problem. Then C:. Get message to convert at next
> > start. Yes. Computer restarted, shows converting. Never entered splash
> > screen
> > to statrt XP. Same screen has been up for 36 hours....
> >
> > S, do I shut it off, and restart? Can I pull the hard drive, put it in USB
> > external drive, convert and reinstall?
> >
> > Looking for some guidance...
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Don
>
>
>
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