diskpart

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IDAssociates Inc.

Cant seem to recall how to get to utilities from an XP full verison disk.
Need to remove partitions from a HDD. TIA.
 
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Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers

Hi,

From within the OS, start/run diskmgmt.msc

From the Recovery Console, run diskpart

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
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Mark Delaney

IDAssociates Inc. said:
Cant seem to recall how to get to utilities from an XP full verison disk.
Need to remove partitions from a HDD. TIA.

Click on the Start button, then click on the Run button. Type diskpart and
diskpart.exe will start.
To display all diskpart.exe commands, type ? at the command prompt.

An alternative to Diskpart for removing hard drive partitions is Disk
Management. You can access Disk management by going to
Control Panel
Administrative Tools
Computer Management.
When computer Managemenent opens, select Disk Managemenent in the Storage
group in the left hand side tree.
Disk Management provides you with a graphic user interface and will allow
you to manage your hard drives and your partitions.

Mark Delaney, MCT
 
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Wayne McGlinn

Or from the dos prompt, simply run diskpart

--
Wayne McGlinn
Brisbane, Oz

"Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a
system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from
the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony - Dennis"
 
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Alex Nichol

IDAssociates said:
Cant seem to recall how to get to utilities from an XP full verison disk.
Need to remove partitions from a HDD.

You cannot affect the partition the system is running on. You can
delete others at Control Panel - Admin Tools - Computer Management,
select Disk Management and look lower right for the graphic of the
drive. R-click in another partition and you can delete; r-click in
Unallocated space resulting and you can create.

If you want to clear of everything, You do it as part of a reinstall of
the system after booting the XP CD direct. Enter Setup, and after the
license agreement take New Install. When it asks you to confirm where,
hit ESC; select and delete the current partitions and make a new RAW one
of suitable size for C: to be formatted at the next stage

The important point is the delete. Without that it will just go ahead
and make a new install over the top of the old one
 
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SlowJet

No DOS, No Fdisk, No FAT.

Within XP and other 32 bit OS's there is a Command Console.
It looks like DOS because DOS also has a command console (and that's all it
ever had.)
But there is as much DOS in XP as there is DOS in VMS , MACH,
BDS(Apple-Darwin), UNIX or LINUX.

Piper cubs and Jets both have wings. ;)

SJ
 
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Wayne McGlinn

DOS = Disk Operating System, I said nothing about MS-DOS. The command prompt
under XP etc can also be called a dos prompt.

--
Wayne McGlinn
Brisbane, Oz

"Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a
system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from
the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony" - Dennis
 
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Ken Blake

In
Wayne McGlinn said:
DOS = Disk Operating System, I said nothing about MS-DOS. The
command
prompt under XP etc can also be called a dos prompt.


You can call it whatever you want, but if you call it that,
you'll be using the term very differently from the way most
knowlegeable people use it. The result will be that you will be
frequently misunderstood.

Because it's not true MS-DOS, as similar facilities were in
versions like Windows 98, most of us don't call it a "DOS
prompt," but instead call it a "command prompt."
 
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SFB - KB3MM

That will really confuse people.

Wayne McGlinn said:
DOS = Disk Operating System, I said nothing about MS-DOS. The command prompt
under XP etc can also be called a dos prompt.

--
Wayne McGlinn
Brisbane, Oz

"Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a
system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from
the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony" - Dennis
 

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