Doing a clean or new install of XP onto a logical drive

[Daniel Prince]

My Windows XP Home installation has gotten all messed up. When I
try to boot windows, I keep getting an error messages that says:

IO system verification error in (WDM driver error 207) [+0 at
000000000]

I tried to do a repair installation but it did not work. Now I can
not get into safe mode, or safe mode with command prompt, because of
the failed repair installation.

When I try to go into either type of safe mode I get a message
saying XP is unable to run setup in safe mode. When I click on the
X in the upper right corner of the message box, all I get is a blank
screen or my computer reboots. I had to run my old 98 SE to use
Agent and send this message.

I may need to do a clean or new install to a different logical
drive. I have two physical hard drives. Both of them have one
primary partition and one extended partition. When I partitioned
these drives I was using Windows 98 SE so I used fat 32 and made all
the logical drives smaller than 16 gigs to keep the cluster size
down.

My drive zero is 120 gigs and it has logical drives C through K on
it. My Windows 98 SE installation is on the C drive. My second
drive is 30 gigs. It has logical drives L and M on it. My Windows
XP installation is on the M drive.

On 98 I use the program Letter Assigner to make the first logical
drive in the extended partition drive D, instead of the primary
partition on the second drive being D. I made the primary partition
on the second drive the L logical drive. On XP I did the same thing
with the control panel.

I have about eight gigs free on my D drive. I can easily clear out
a few more gigs but some of the files on this drive are applications
that would be hard to move.

Can I do a clean or new install of XP on my D logical drive without
removing EVERYTHING from that logical drive?

If not, can I move all the files from my E logical drive and install
XP there without having to repartition the drive and without losing
anything on logical drives C, D, F, G, H, I or K?

Thank you in advance for all replies.

 

[George Hester]

You can clean install Windows XP to any type of partition you want primary or logical it doesn't matter. The
catch comes when you try to install Windows XP to a drive that is NOT your primary drive; the drive that the
BIOS sees to boot from. In that case you need to have a small System Partition on the Primary drive. I used to
make mine 7MB in Windows 2000 but now the operating systems prefer on order 25MB so I just do 100MB
and be done with it. But they still only use about 554KB. Go figure.

--
George Hester
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My Windows XP Home installation has gotten all messed up. When I
try to boot windows, I keep getting an error messages that says:

IO system verification error in (WDM driver error 207) [+0 at
000000000]

I tried to do a repair installation but it did not work. Now I can
not get into safe mode, or safe mode with command prompt, because of
the failed repair installation.

When I try to go into either type of safe mode I get a message
saying XP is unable to run setup in safe mode. When I click on the
X in the upper right corner of the message box, all I get is a blank
screen or my computer reboots. I had to run my old 98 SE to use
Agent and send this message.

I may need to do a clean or new install to a different logical
drive. I have two physical hard drives. Both of them have one
primary partition and one extended partition. When I partitioned
these drives I was using Windows 98 SE so I used fat 32 and made all
the logical drives smaller than 16 gigs to keep the cluster size
down.

My drive zero is 120 gigs and it has logical drives C through K on
it. My Windows 98 SE installation is on the C drive. My second
drive is 30 gigs. It has logical drives L and M on it. My Windows
XP installation is on the M drive.

On 98 I use the program Letter Assigner to make the first logical
drive in the extended partition drive D, instead of the primary
partition on the second drive being D. I made the primary partition
on the second drive the L logical drive. On XP I did the same thing
with the control panel.

I have about eight gigs free on my D drive. I can easily clear out
a few more gigs but some of the files on this drive are applications
that would be hard to move.

Can I do a clean or new install of XP on my D logical drive without
removing EVERYTHING from that logical drive?

If not, can I move all the files from my E logical drive and install
XP there without having to repartition the drive and without losing
anything on logical drives C, D, F, G, H, I or K?

Thank you in advance for all replies.
--
I am TERRIBLY cruel to my cat. I tease him with a vine tendril
until he either jumps up in the air to bat at it or zooms around
in a circle until he gets too dizzy to stand up. What is cruel about
it is that I don't do it nearly as much as he wants me to.

 

[Guest]

should not be a problem doing a new install on the D partition, (a "clean
install" is when you delete \ re-create the partition, format, install)

just keep in mind that windows XP setup may not label the partition as it
does in windows 98 if you manually changed the drive letter assignments.

 

[Daniel Prince]

should not be a problem doing a new install on the D partition, (a "clean
install" is when you delete \ re-create the partition, format, install)

Is there much difference in the stability of a new install verses a
clean install? If I do a new install, does the logical drive have
to be empty?

just keep in mind that windows XP setup may not label the partition as it
does in windows 98 if you manually changed the drive letter assignments.

So it will probably see it as E then? Will it show me the directory
or free space available so that I can be sure I am using the drive I
want to?

Is eight gigs enough room for me to install XP or do I need more
than that?