Formatting the Partition Problems

[Guest]

I had the hard drive replaced in my HP Pavilion and need to reload Windows
XP. I've got an upgrade edition so it required I put in an old version
(windows 98 in my case). Got to the stage where it began formatting the
partiion (chose quick version) and loaded 20% before freezing up. Have
tried the non quick selection and its doesn't format at all.

 

[JS]

How old is your PC, if it was purchased before 2002 there is a good chance
it may not support today's larger drives (over 137GB).

JS

 

[JS]

Forgot to mention that Windows XP must be SP1 or SP2 to support large
drives.

JS

 

[Guest]

I bought the PC from Office Max in late 2000. The new hard drive is 80 mg
and was put in by a PC repair shop so assuming he checked that out.

 

[Guest]

I'll check that out. Might just end up bring it back to the repair shop
and letting them figure out how to get past this.

 

[JS]

An 80GB drive does not require 48 Bit LBA support, so the drive size should
not be an issue in your case.
Take it back to the shop.

JS

 

[Jonny]

I had the hard drive replaced in my HP Pavilion and need to reload Windows
XP. I've got an upgrade edition so it required I put in an old version
(windows 98 in my case). Got to the stage where it began formatting the
partiion (chose quick version) and loaded 20% before freezing up. Have
tried the non quick selection and its doesn't format at all.

Boot diskette:
http://www.troyedwards.com/downloads/BootDisks/boot98.exe
http://www.msu-hb.de/download/boot98se.exe
Bootable CD images:
http://s93616405.onlinehome.us/bootdisk/win98c.zip
http://s93616405.onlinehome.us/bootdisk/win98sc.zip
How to partition with fdisk:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=263044
Hard disks with FAT32 partitions beyond 64GB:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/255867/

 

[Peter A. Stavrakoglou]

I had the hard drive replaced in my HP Pavilion and need to reload Windows
XP. I've got an upgrade edition so it required I put in an old version
(windows 98 in my case). Got to the stage where it began formatting the
partiion (chose quick version) and loaded 20% before freezing up. Have
tried the non quick selection and its doesn't format at all.

Are you saying that you installed Win 98 prior to trying to load XP? You
are not required to install Win 98, only to "prove" that you have it when
installing XP at which time you'll be prompted to insert the Win 98 disk so
it can be verified, then you'll continue with the install of XP. Now if
your version of Win 98 is on recovery disk instead of a full Win 98 CD, then
I imagine that you may need to have it installed prior to upgrading to XP.
Maybe someone can clarify this.

 

[Jonny]

Are you saying that you installed Win 98 prior to trying to load XP? You
are not required to install Win 98, only to "prove" that you have it when
installing XP at which time you'll be prompted to insert the Win 98 disk
so it can be verified, then you'll continue with the install of XP. Now
if your version of Win 98 is on recovery disk instead of a full Win 98 CD,
then I imagine that you may need to have it installed prior to upgrading
to XP. Maybe someone can clarify this.

You got it right. Recovery installation media is not proof of ownership of
qualifying MS products for XP upgrade. Yes, its got to be installed in that
case prior to the XP upgrade installation.