08-01-2007, 10:35 PM
to be honest i have no idea why i cant boot from the xp cd...
(new development: i made the boot floops disks, was able to start installing xp, but it seems only 1 key works for each cd meaning i cant take my old key and install xp with another disk. it has to be the disk that went with that key)
i had bought a 200gig HD maybe 2 years ago, and at that time i had XP Pro SP 2 and my pc read the HD as 120gig and not 200gig. so i went to the store i bought it from and the guy used some program and increased the partition size. he litterally clicked and dragged a bar... i think it is called partition magic that he used so i tried getting that, but it seems you gotta buy it, or you only get a demo and cant do shit with the demo :/
about my HD size... when i ran the setup boot floppy disks, it brought me to a screen saying which HD/partition to install XP on, or which drives to format. so first i deleted the only partition on each HD so i had 2 HDs that were 100% unpartitioned. then i created a partition on each with the maximum partition size allowed (roughly 78gig on my 80gig HD and 194gig on my 200gig HD)
now im formatting the HDs again because the xp install screwed up on me, and once that is done i will try using another XP disc with it's key...
(new development: i made the boot floops disks, was able to start installing xp, but it seems only 1 key works for each cd meaning i cant take my old key and install xp with another disk. it has to be the disk that went with that key)
i had bought a 200gig HD maybe 2 years ago, and at that time i had XP Pro SP 2 and my pc read the HD as 120gig and not 200gig. so i went to the store i bought it from and the guy used some program and increased the partition size. he litterally clicked and dragged a bar... i think it is called partition magic that he used so i tried getting that, but it seems you gotta buy it, or you only get a demo and cant do shit with the demo :/
about my HD size... when i ran the setup boot floppy disks, it brought me to a screen saying which HD/partition to install XP on, or which drives to format. so first i deleted the only partition on each HD so i had 2 HDs that were 100% unpartitioned. then i created a partition on each with the maximum partition size allowed (roughly 78gig on my 80gig HD and 194gig on my 200gig HD)
now im formatting the HDs again because the xp install screwed up on me, and once that is done i will try using another XP disc with it's key...
Thanks,
GM Pande
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