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by crystaltec 1 view

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Am trying to install XP Pro on a 40Gb HDD (New system Intel M/B)
{manged to install it only after I have installed Win98/2- which has been formated over now, as I want a clean installation}
XP didn't autorun for me so I used fdisk & created a 40 GB partition (although I want 2 or 3 partitions in total -I understand I can do it later from within XP
Anyone with paitiance to explain me simply:
1:Do I partition the drive with fdisk in the begining & do I create all of my neccacery partitions now?
2. How to get XP Pro to start its setup????
I Want to run it with FAT32
Cheers

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by satishmm

PLS DO THE PARTTIONS USING (DM ) WHICH IS PROVIDED BY SEGATE MAKE PARTITIONS AS U REQUIRED THEN U FIRST INSTALL WINDOWS 98 AFTER COMPLETION OF WINDOWS 98 THEN U SETUP WINDOWS XP NOT GO FOR UPGRADING THE SYSTEM FRESH INSTALLATION AND PROCEED

SATISH MM

by thechas

Use fdisk from the W98 startup floppy to create your FAT 32 partitions as desired.

XP does not include the capability to repartition on the fly. You will need a 3rd party utility such as Partition Magic to re-partition an existing drive.

You can allocate unused partition space from within XP. Perhaps this is what you heard about.

If your motherboard does not support booting from CD-ROM
(Set the boot sequence in BIOS settings so that the CD drive is the first device)
Then, you can download a file from Microsoft to create the floppy boot set. I think you need 6 floppies for the XP boot set.

Chas

by ajsdodd

Since you are used to fdisk just make your first patition and formet it in fat32. Leave the rest of the disk unpartitioned. Get the program from bootdisk and make the 6 boot floppys. Run them and install XP. Remember to turn the virus checker off inthe bios. To make the other partitions use the Disk Manager, Rught click on My Computer and choose manage. You can choose whatever size disks you want in the unpartitioned space.

by rcom

To have XP autorun when you start the computer your CDROM has to be first in the boot order. To do this access the system BIOS and change the setting there. After that you can run the setup and decide what size partition you want.

by c.barnhorst

Even if you are using the WinXP Upgrade Edition you can still do a clean install. On a freshly formatted HDD the installer will inform you that it cannot find a previous version of windows and then ask you to insert your original of your previous OS. I recently bought a laptop with ME only to have the OS go south on me so badly that when I installed XP pro upgrade the installer couldn't find an OS. It asked for an OS cd and accepted my Win98 SE (no WinME cd or restore cd came with the laptop). Then it formatted C: and I got a very stable instal. The HDD was already partitioned but that wouldn't matter.

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