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Is there a simple soloution to this?
I did a major upgrade to my PC - new 200G HDD to suppliment an existing 80G
drive. The 80G had been partitioned 15/60, with a Windows XP Home on the 20G
side.
The 200G was partitioned 110/40/40, and fearing my Program Files folder was
getting short on space within that 15G, I had committed one of the 40's to a
reinstall of XP (by installing XP onto the 200 while the 80 was not connected
to the motherboard).
Somehow I have ended up with the 15 as a boot drive, the 40 as a system
drive, so I tried an upgrade install - which did not ask where to install,
but it seems to have made no difference. I canot re-format either drive to
erase the install, and cannot re-nominate one or the other as both a system
and boot drive, to allow me to erase the bad XP install and make use of the
space.
system is as follows:
bios: Award Software, Inc. ASUS P4S800MX ACPI BIOS Revision 1010
celeron 2.4g
256M Ram
200G HDD
80G HDD
DVD-RW
CD-RW
any advice or diagnosis greatly appreciated; the whole thing works - but is,
quite frankly a dog's breakfast - coming from a rebuild I had wanted a nice
clean config, but just have a rats nest.
thanks
sj
I did a major upgrade to my PC - new 200G HDD to suppliment an existing 80G
drive. The 80G had been partitioned 15/60, with a Windows XP Home on the 20G
side.
The 200G was partitioned 110/40/40, and fearing my Program Files folder was
getting short on space within that 15G, I had committed one of the 40's to a
reinstall of XP (by installing XP onto the 200 while the 80 was not connected
to the motherboard).
Somehow I have ended up with the 15 as a boot drive, the 40 as a system
drive, so I tried an upgrade install - which did not ask where to install,
but it seems to have made no difference. I canot re-format either drive to
erase the install, and cannot re-nominate one or the other as both a system
and boot drive, to allow me to erase the bad XP install and make use of the
space.
system is as follows:
bios: Award Software, Inc. ASUS P4S800MX ACPI BIOS Revision 1010
celeron 2.4g
256M Ram
200G HDD
80G HDD
DVD-RW
CD-RW
any advice or diagnosis greatly appreciated; the whole thing works - but is,
quite frankly a dog's breakfast - coming from a rebuild I had wanted a nice
clean config, but just have a rats nest.
thanks
sj