C: drive is system partition

[mahalie]

Um, this is a horribly newbie-ish maneuver, I'm sure....

I recently purchased a laptop and was told by the manufacturer to run
fdisk and do a clean install of xp pro because there are issues with
upgrading form Home Edition to Pro.

I did this, eeking alon, following directions, but I think I made a big
mistake.

The system partition (or whatever you call it) is 8 mb and is the C:
drive, and my D: drive (which has xp installed on it) is 60 gigs. I was
irritated during setup cause I couldn't figure out how to switch the
order and now it's becoming a problem because my video driver refuses
to install on D: and there isn't enough room on C:

So do I have to fdisk again and start all over?
Can PartitionMagic combine them if D: is NTFS and C: is FAT?

When I recieved the computer (with Home Edition preinstalled) there was
only one hard drive - C. I would really like it to be like that.

Please advise!


Mahalie

 

[Galen]

In mahalie had this to say:

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Um, this is a horribly newbie-ish maneuver, I'm sure....

I recently purchased a laptop and was told by the manufacturer to run
fdisk and do a clean install of xp pro because there are issues with
upgrading form Home Edition to Pro.

I did this, eeking alon, following directions, but I think I made a
big mistake.

The system partition (or whatever you call it) is 8 mb and is the C:
drive, and my D: drive (which has xp installed on it) is 60 gigs. I
was irritated during setup cause I couldn't figure out how to switch
the order and now it's becoming a problem because my video driver
refuses to install on D: and there isn't enough room on C:

So do I have to fdisk again and start all over?
Can PartitionMagic combine them if D: is NTFS and C: is FAT?

When I recieved the computer (with Home Edition preinstalled) there
was only one hard drive - C. I would really like it to be like that.

Please advise!


Mahalie

No PM can't but you can convert the C: to NTFS, merge, and then change the
drive letter and their drive letter change application (depending on your
version of PM) isn't TOO TOO bad and not too much of a risk. I would, still,
consider backing up first. <g>

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