Re-installing Windows XP - Dynamic Disk

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Guest

I have Celeron 1.7GHz with 256MB RAM. Two 40GB Hard Disk Drives. DigiGiga
with Intel Chipset Motherboard. Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2.

Everything was working fine. To boost the performance of my PC later I
convert my disks to Dynamic.

After a few days, I have to reinstall Windows XP because of a SpyWare
Attack. When I was trying to reinstall, the Windows XP setup is not showing
the Partitions correctly.

Can anyone tell me that how I can reinstall Windows XP without first
converting my disks to Basic Disk. I have nearly 60GB data on my both hard
disks.
 
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Chuck Davis

Questions: By "Dynamic" are you referring to NTFS? Basic to FAT32? If so
should not revert to FAT32.

I have made "house calls" to approximately 200 computer club members during
the last 2 years. Never have I had to reinstall WinXP because of spyware
attacks or browser hijacks. Sure it's possible that reinstalling is faster,
but never as satisfactory. Occasionally, I will bring the 'sick' computer
home for a couple of days of cleansing using my computer to search the
internet for clues to the problem. I have made it a rule not to buy or
download free programs that claim to clean it up.
 
G

Guest

I understand that what u r actually trying to say. Forget about the Spyware
or Virus attack.

Tell me if there is any way to re-install Windows XP (by any reason) on
dynamic disks.
 
G

Guest

The question is simple. I have Windows XP Service Pack 2 installed on Dynamic
Disk. By any reason (whatever it is), i want to re-install Windows XP.

What is the method? Before reply, you must check it.

Waiting for comments!
 
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Carey Frisch [MVP]

Error Message About Partition Appears When You Install Windows XP
to a Dynamic Volume
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/283421/en-us

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
news://msnews.microsoft.com/

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| The question is simple. I have Windows XP Service Pack 2 installed on Dynamic
| Disk. By any reason (whatever it is), i want to re-install Windows XP.
|
| What is the method? Before reply, you must check it.
|
| Waiting for comments!
 
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VanguardLH

PA said:
jean wrote:
Click to expand...
Why are you replying to a post dated 02 April 2006?
Click to expand...

See the OP's headers:
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
X-Mailer: http://www.umailcampaign.com, ip log:220.248.143.80
Path:
news.albasani.net!feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!open-news-network.org!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news.alt.net!msrtrans!TK2MSFTFEEDS02.phx.gbl!TK2MSFTFEEDS01.phx.gbl!TK2MSFTNGP01.phx.gbl!TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl!newspe.com

The OP is used a leeching webnews-for-boobs forum that pretends to have
a larger community by gatewaying to Usenet. Users of web-based forums
all too often don't bother to look at datestamps before replying.

Look at the boob's post. We see the HTML code for the URL link (the <A>
HTML tag) but the web-based forum would present it as a clickable link.
Forum-to-Usenet leeching gateways are noted for spewing out screwed up
posts to Usenet.

At the bottom of the newspe.com page it says:

"Powered by Redmine © 2006-2009 Jean-Philippe Lang"

So it looks like jean responded to his tiny community (pretending to be
larger by leeching onto Usenet). When you read http://www.redmine.org/,
"Redmine is a flexible project management web application written using
Ruby on Rails framework", what the hell does that have to do with
web-based forums? It doesn't mention which gateway he uses to leech
to/from Usenet (but most webnews-for-boob pretend forums don't mention
that). It looks like a web-based "issues" listing where users report
problems. Their "Help" link points to http://www.redmine.org/guide.
Instead of providing help to its users of jean's leeching forums, he
shoves his users off to some Redmine software guide (on how to implement
the server-side PHP software). Guess they decided we in Usenet need to
participate in their project bug reports at Yardi (the name for the
newspe.com site).

Just another Usenet leeching webnews-for-boobs gateway (which probably
should've been kept private for its users to discuss some bug reports)
pretending to have a larger community by usurping Usenet and which
should be filtered out in your newsreader, if its capable (by using a
^Path:.*!newspe.com$ or ^Message-ID:\s*<.+@newspe\.com> regex filter to
hide/delete posts from the leech site).
 

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