Need help with partitions

[Jaepheth]

I have aHitachi deskstar with 160Gigs of space. During
Windoes XP Pro installation, I set up a 50 Gig Partition.
After a few days, when I had everything running smoothly,
I attempted to use Dos based FDisk to turn the
unpartitioned 110 gigs of space into a drive. However,
FDisk changed my C: drive into a D: drive and upon
rebooting, Windows wouldn't start, I believe it
said "OperatingSystem missing" or something to that
effect. I've re-installed Windows on this new C: drive
(changed to 80gigs because of the 132gig limit since my
windows CD doesn't have the upgrades that allows it to see
more)What I want to know is: How do I change the D: drive
back to C: and get it to boot from there again? Disk
management says it can't modify the drive letter of a
sys\tem or boot volume. (D: is labeled system, C: is
labeled boot) Also, how do I set up partitions from
Windows?

 

[Gerry Cornell]

You might be better served by investing in Partition Magic.

Buy Partition Magic:
http://www.powerquest.com/partitionmagic/

or Bootit NG, www.bootitng.com -- 30-days fully functional shareware.



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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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[Mark]

Curious...

Why did you use a Dos partitioner?
Why didn't you set the partition originally?

XP allows you to partition your disks....
-Right click "My Computer".
--Click on "Manage"
---Under "Storage", Click on "Disk Management"
You should see a list of disks...
You may right click on any of them to change parameters,
or scroll though and change what you will...

You could go into your Bios, pick the disk you wish to
boot from...(???)