Problem installing XP

[wowway]

I tried to install a full version of XP home on my 5 year old Dell Dimension
but after converting the HD to the NTFS file format and formatting the HD,
XP setup would quit during setup and stall. When I booted up I got a (NTLDR
is missing) instead of the C: prompt. I spent 3 hours on the phone w/MS
support and she said my computer was too old for XP and I screwed up my
drive overlay and I'd have to debug it? Not sure what that was so I used an
old Win 98 start up disk to format the HD and I was able to load my old OS
(Millennium). The only problem is the DOS partition I created to load
windows is only 5% of the HG (40Gig) and it's in the FAT 16 format. I'm
already running out of disk space before I load all my programs. Does anyone
know how to increase the size of the partition and also convert it to the
FAT32 format?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

 

[dude]

Why don't you mention what your computer specs are

 

[Guest]

If you need to resize partitions and change to FAT32, then get hold of
Partition Magic. DO this only if you don't want to 'rebuild' the PC, from a
software viewpoint.

If you are prepared to rebuild [reinstall everything!], then use your Win 98
startup disk and run FDISK. Delete all partitions. Create a new SINGLE
partition using all available space, formnat as FAT32.

Reboot and start to reinstall everything.

Had you managed to read the instruction that came with XP, you would have
avoided this mess. You should have run the compatibility checker and would
have identified any and all roadblocks to the XP upgrade!

A simple rule for those using computers:
'READ THE USER MANUAL TO AVOID DAMAGING THE SYSTEM INTEGRITY"



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