cannot delete the selected partition because windows needs this partition to install xp

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Liam Curtis

Hi All,

I have a user trying to do a clean installation of XP on a T22 IBM thinkpad
that previous had a win2k preload on it.

I had him boot from the XP CD, and I have walked him (over the phone)
through the text portion of setup to the point where you can select and
delete partitions. As this is a clean installation, I told him to delete the
partition.

The problem is that when he tries to delete the partition, he gets the error
message:

cannot delete the selected partition because windows needs this partition to
install xp (not sure if that is word for word, but something close to it.)

I have been google searching for hours but no luck...his floppy is broken,
and I am trying to avoid walking him through making a bootable cd with fdisk
or another utility on it from another machine.

Any ideas?
 
Thanks Mike.

I think the issue was that the user started the installation from within
windows 2000 before he had called me. I think setup was never even starting
from the CD. He later phoned me back to say that someone at his office
changed the boot order and that solved the problem. The problem was that he
did not tell me he had started the installation from windows 2000
beforehand, otherwise I would have tried the same.


I thought about it
 
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