harddisk partition problem

[Ivan Cheung]

Dear all,

I have a new harddisk. I have formatted it wrongly into 2 partitions and
installed Win XP Pro. I would like to reformat the whole harddisk again in
the beginning. Can anyone tell me how to do that?

Thanks in advance.
Ivan

 

[george]

If this is the disk you already have the OS installed on, then you can
either use something like Partition Magic or you do a new install and during
the installation process you first delete all partitions on the disk and
create one big new one.
The setup process provides for this capability.

hth

george

 

[Malke]

Dear all,

I have a new harddisk. I have formatted it wrongly into 2 partitions
and installed Win XP Pro. I would like to reformat the whole harddisk
again in the beginning. Can anyone tell me how to do that?

Thanks in advance.
Ivan

If you don't care about saving your current installation, just boot with
the XP cd and take "Install". Then delete all partitions, create new
ones as desired, format, install Windows. If you want to save the
current installation, then you will need third-party software such as
Partition Magic or BootItNG.

Malke

 

[Ivan Cheung]

Thanks George & Malke.
I will try it later.

 

[Alex Nichol]

I have a new harddisk. I have formatted it wrongly into 2 partitions and
installed Win XP Pro. I would like to reformat the whole harddisk again in
the beginning. Can anyone tell me how to do that?

I would suggest thinking again before making a disk of the size you are
likely to have bought into a single partition with XP installed on it
together with all data. I would recommend a partition of somewhere in
the range 10 to 20 GB for the system and programs, and the data
separately. Adjusting sizes is best done using third party software -
Partition Magic or BootIT NG, from http://www.BootitNG.com ($35
shareware - 30 day full functional trial)

If after all you *do* decide to start over, You do the 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
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