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MsDos- fdisk,

by ken749 Dec 24, 2004 12:21PM PST

using a 98 start-up disk,trying to reconfriger my hard disk.Unable to load winxp until I format my hard drive. How do I exit without losing the chances made by Fdisk. When I exit msdos, I lose my chances, Is there a command that will exit Dos with out losing new partitions. Thank you

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Very odd!

by r. proffitt Forum moderator Dec 24, 2004 12:41PM PST

"Unable to load winxp until I format my hard drive."

Windows XP has it's own native tools for partitioning and formatting. I never have to boot a DOS diskette.

Here's a graphical web page showing at about step 5 where partitioning is done -> http://www.blackviper.com/Articles/OS/InstallXPHome/installxphome1.htm

Why do DOS?

Bob

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Formating and XP

by tsranch Dec 27, 2004 11:33PM PST

If you have the XP-CD, just boot from it and it'll ask you step by step if you want to keep the old operating system, install a new one, format partial, etc. Select full format at 100% partition and let XP do it's thing. If you're sure you'll not be going back to 98, this is a good time for format into NTFS and not FAT32

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