Partition problem

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Hjalmar Leon

I have XP Pro installed in my computer and I want to delete the partition to
install a new fresh windows XP Pro.
During the setup, when I am asked to delete the selected partition by
pressing D in the partition that I want to delete
"C: partition NTFS 14677 MB (12098MB free)" this is the only partition
present in "C"
I get the following note and can not continue with the deleting process.
"Setup is unable to perform the requested operation on the selected
partition. This partition contains temporary setup files that are required
to complete the installation" Any reason why I can not delete this
partition?
Thanks
 
Hjalmar said:
I have XP Pro installed in my computer and I want to delete the
partition to install a new fresh windows XP Pro.
During the setup, when I am asked to delete the selected partition by
pressing D in the partition that I want to delete
"C: partition NTFS 14677 MB (12098MB free)" this is the only partition
present in "C"
I get the following note and can not continue with the deleting
process. "Setup is unable to perform the requested operation on the
selected partition. This partition contains temporary setup files
that are required to complete the installation" Any reason why I can
not delete this partition?
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Just to be sure, you are booting from the CD, correct?
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/cleanxp.htm

If yes, and the clean boot from CD won't let you do it, then do this
first...
Download a Win98/ME boot disk, create it, boot with it, FDISK/Format the
drive with FAT32.
Then follow the above instructions for a clean installation (the web page
link), including the deletion of the partition and creation of a new one,
again.
 
You can't delete that partiton that way because like it says, there are
temporary install/setup files on the c drive that are needed to install xp.
The cd loads files to the c drive when you boot to it. An easier way would
be to boot to a win9x floppy boot disk, run fdisk, delete the partiton,
create a new one, reboot to floppy, run format c:\, then boot to the cd and
install xp.
Or during xp install don't delete the partition, just format it and install
xp.
 
Funny! I have installed XP hundreds of times and have never run into that
problem. I can delete the install partition, create a new partition and
format said partition and the install just continues. The files are held in
the RAM and copied to the new partition. Now, if you only have 64 meg of RAM
there may be a condition that I have not run into. It has been 5 years since
I installed on any computer with that small amount of RAM.

--
Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)
 
Hjalmar said:
I have XP Pro installed in my computer and I want to delete the partition to
install a new fresh windows XP Pro.
During the setup, when I am asked to delete the selected partition by
pressing D in the partition that I want to delete
"C: partition NTFS 14677 MB (12098MB free)" this is the only partition
present in "C"
I get the following note and can not continue with the deleting process.
"Setup is unable to perform the requested operation on the selected
partition. This partition contains temporary setup files that are required
to complete the installation" Any reason why I can not delete this
partition?
Click to expand...

This sounds as if you are trying to run the setup from the existing
system. You do it as part of a 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 partition and make a new RAW one to be formatted at the next
stage
 
It is not working that way. XP setup is giving the same unalbre to perform
the requested operation wehn I press "d"
hhhhmmm.... do not know what is wrong
 
When I try to boot from floppy inw 98 boot disk. I get this error Disck I/O
error, replace the disck and and press any key.
 
I've seen it happen a few times. Not sure why, but xp copies the setup files
to the c drive before it gets to the part where you can delete the partition
and it doesn't let you. This is on machines with 256 meg of ram. If I
remeber right it might have been when using a third party floppy boot disk.
 
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