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Old May 27th 04, 11:39 PM
Richard
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I have recently done a clean install of Win ME. All seems
to have gone well But I have noticed that the capacity
shown for my C Drive has gone from 13 Gb to 7 Gb. I
cannot see another partition or another drive. Have I
inadvertantly partitioned my hard drive?
If so can I unpartition it without going through the
complete reinstall again?
Thanks in advance
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Old May 28th 04, 03:03 AM
Rick T
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Richard wrote:

I have recently done a clean install of Win ME. All seems
to have gone well But I have noticed that the capacity
shown for my C Drive has gone from 13 Gb to 7 Gb. I
cannot see another partition or another drive. Have I
inadvertantly partitioned my hard drive?
If so can I unpartition it without going through the
complete reinstall again?
Thanks in advance


what does FDISK have to say about it ?

in a DOS Window, type

FDISK /STATUS


it should tell you if you have another (unformatted) partition hanging
around.


Rick
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Old June 8th 04, 07:26 PM
sierrad
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Default Disk Partitions??

I tried this and my computer is telling me that fdisk is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file
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Old June 8th 04, 09:55 PM
Rick T
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sierrad wrote:

I tried this and my computer is telling me that fdisk is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file


Said all that, eh?... where did you type it in at ?


Rick
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Old June 8th 04, 10:41 PM
sierrad
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c:
and I don't have XP cds because it came with my system. I was trying to install a clean copy of XP from system32.exe. I installed some weird version of Windows, because it didn’t have any drivers and looked terrible. So I tried to remove it. The computer installed it in what it is calling partition 1 and calling it Windows.0. I deleted the windows.0 from the C drive, but when the computer boots up it tells me that my hal.dll file is missing or corrupt; then I press F8 and then it gives me the option of selecting either of the operating systems it thinks it has. But it can’t have them both, can it? I deleted one, I think. This al comes from a severely infected computer that I have tried to clean now for 2 weeks. I have Norton, AVG, adware, and spybot. The computer is still telling me that I have some Trojan in my system32, so I turned off my system restore and ran AVG again - it found nothing.

All I need to do is remove the additional operating system. Remain with the crappy infected stuff I had and make it work ....aghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
PLEASE help me.
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Old June 9th 04, 04:36 AM
Rick T
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sierrad wrote:

c: and I don't have XP cds because it came with my system. I was
trying to install a clean copy of XP from system32.exe. I installed
some weird version of Windows, because it didn’t have any drivers and
looked terrible. So I tried to remove it. The computer installed it
in what it is calling partition 1 and calling it Windows.0. I deleted
the windows.0 from the C drive, but when the computer boots up it
tells me that my hal.dll file is missing or corrupt; then I press F8
and then it gives me the option of selecting either of the operating
systems it thinks it has. But it can’t have them both, can it? I
deleted one, I think. This al comes from a severely infected computer
that I have tried to clean now for 2 weeks. I have Norton, AVG,
adware, and spybot. The computer is still telling me that I have some
Trojan in my system32, so I turned off my system restore and ran AVG
again - it found nothing.

All I need to do is remove the additional operating system. Remain
with the crappy infected stuff I had and make it work
....aghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! PLEASE help me.



You should really post this to a WindowsXP newsgroup (these are
WindowsMillenium groups).

microsoft.public.windowsxp.general for instance.


Good Luck


Rick
 




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