repartitioned, now XP home won't install

[Ken King]

Greetings:
Resized my HD (came as 1 60G partition), and now it
won't boot. OK, in goes the CD for install - now the
error message: "However, this disk does not contain a
Windows XP-compatable partition." What do I need to do to
get it going again?

[Danny Blue]

Explain what you did to resize.

"Ken King" > wrote in message
...
> Greetings:
> Resized my HD (came as 1 60G partition), and now it
> won't boot. OK, in goes the CD for install - now the
> error message: "However, this disk does not contain a
> Windows XP-compatable partition." What do I need to do to
> get it going again?

[Alvin A Brown]

Hello

Redo the processor but make sure you backup your data

Alvin


Ken King wrote:

> Greetings:
> Resized my HD (came as 1 60G partition), and now it
> won't boot. OK, in goes the CD for install - now the
> error message: "However, this disk does not contain a
> Windows XP-compatable partition." What do I need to do to
> get it going again?

[Ken King]

Resized by using Partition Magic 8.0. I verified that
there was space (defrag & view under xp - no files past
the half way point). Told P.M. to execute the task &
rebooted - and that's when I'd get stuck on the logo
screen (blue with two orange lines & an xp logo) for 10
min or more. That's when I decided to try to repair, then
reinstall the OS.
>-----Original Message-----
>Explain what you did to resize.
>
>"Ken King" > wrote in message
...
>> Greetings:
>> Resized my HD (came as 1 60G partition), and now it
>> won't boot. OK, in goes the CD for install - now the
>> error message: "However, this disk does not contain a
>> Windows XP-compatable partition." What do I need to do
to
>> get it going again?
>
>
>.
>

[ken king]

Redo the processor? I don't follow you. The processor
works fine, it's getting a bootable hard drive that is the
problem. What did you mean? (data is *always* backed up,
this is the kind of luck I typically have... )8

>-----Original Message-----
>Hello
>
>Redo the processor but make sure you backup your data
>
>Alvin
>
>
>Ken King wrote:
>
>> Greetings:
>> Resized my HD (came as 1 60G partition), and now it
>> won't boot. OK, in goes the CD for install - now the
>> error message: "However, this disk does not contain a
>> Windows XP-compatable partition." What do I need to do
to
>> get it going again?
>
>.
>

[Alvin A Brown]

Hello

What am saying is to make your cdrom the primary boot device
and run throught the loading process again and it will tell what
partitions you have.

Alvin


ken king wrote:

> Redo the processor? I don't follow you. The processor
> works fine, it's getting a bootable hard drive that is the
> problem. What did you mean? (data is *always* backed up,
> this is the kind of luck I typically have... )8
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Hello
> >
> >Redo the processor but make sure you backup your data
> >
> >Alvin
> >
> >
> >Ken King wrote:
> >
> >> Greetings:
> >> Resized my HD (came as 1 60G partition), and now it
> >> won't boot. OK, in goes the CD for install - now the
> >> error message: "However, this disk does not contain a
> >> Windows XP-compatable partition." What do I need to do
> to
> >> get it going again?
> >
> >.
> >

[ken king]

Umm, that's what I meant to say. I've done that and what
it says is that I have plenty of partitions, just none of
them are XP compagible, and refuses to install the OS on
them. Any clues on where to go from here?

>-----Original Message-----
>Hello
>
>What am saying is to make your cdrom the primary boot
>device and run throught the loading process again and
>it will tell whatpartitions you have.
>
>Alvin
>
>
>ken king wrote:
>
>> Redo the processor? I don't follow you. The processor
>> works fine, it's getting a bootable hard drive that is
>> the problem. What did you mean? (data is *always*
>> backed up, this is the kind of luck I typically
>> have... )8
>>
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >Redo the processor but make sure you backup your data
>> >
>> >Alvin
>> >
>> >
>> >Ken King wrote:
>> >
>> >> Greetings:
>> >> Resized my HD (came as 1 60G partition), and now it
>> >> won't boot. OK, in goes the CD for install - now the
>> >> error message: "However, this disk does not contain a
>> >> Windows XP-compatable partition." What do I need to
>> >> do to get it going again?

[Danny Blue]

Do you have a Windows boot disk available so you could FDISK? Have you tried
anything with PM?

"Ken King" > wrote in message
...
> Greetings:
> Resized my HD (came as 1 60G partition), and now it
> won't boot. OK, in goes the CD for install - now the
> error message: "However, this disk does not contain a
> Windows XP-compatable partition." What do I need to do to
> get it going again?

[Pete Baker]

Hi Ken

Apologies for jumping into the middle here but if you're OK with losing any
data on the disk have you considered deleting one or all the partitions
during the set-up phase and resizing partitions, reformatting and then
installing... all from the XP CD?

Hope that helps
Pete
--------------------------------

"ken king" > wrote in message
...
> Umm, that's what I meant to say. I've done that and what
> it says is that I have plenty of partitions, just none of
> them are XP compagible, and refuses to install the OS on
> them. Any clues on where to go from here?
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Hello
> >
> >What am saying is to make your cdrom the primary boot
> >device and run throught the loading process again and
> >it will tell whatpartitions you have.
> >
> >Alvin
> >
> >
> >ken king wrote:
> >
> >> Redo the processor? I don't follow you. The processor
> >> works fine, it's getting a bootable hard drive that is
> >> the problem. What did you mean? (data is *always*
> >> backed up, this is the kind of luck I typically
> >> have... )8
> >>
> >> >-----Original Message-----
> >> >Redo the processor but make sure you backup your data
> >> >
> >> >Alvin
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >Ken King wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Greetings:
> >> >> Resized my HD (came as 1 60G partition), and now it
> >> >> won't boot. OK, in goes the CD for install - now the
> >> >> error message: "However, this disk does not contain a
> >> >> Windows XP-compatable partition." What do I need to
> >> >> do to get it going again?
>

[Danny Blue]

My last note should have stated ' have you retried to run Partition Manager
functions'?

"Ken King" > wrote in message
...
> Greetings:
> Resized my HD (came as 1 60G partition), and now it
> won't boot. OK, in goes the CD for install - now the
> error message: "However, this disk does not contain a
> Windows XP-compatable partition." What do I need to do to
> get it going again?

[Ken King]

The next step (Monday) is to use XP's setup delete/create
partition software. If that doesn't work, then I'll have
to make a floppy to do it from...

>-----Original Message-----
>Do you have a Windows boot disk available so you could
FDISK? Have you tried
>anything with PM?
>
>"Ken King" > wrote in message
...
>> Greetings:
>> Resized my HD (came as 1 60G partition), and now it
>> won't boot. OK, in goes the CD for install - now the
>> error message: "However, this disk does not contain a
>> Windows XP-compatable partition." What do I need to do
to
>> get it going again?
>
>
>.
>

[ken king]

That's next on the list. If that doesn't work, then I
will have to make a boot disk & put fdisk on it and do
it the old fashioned way...
>-----Original Message-----
>Hi Ken
>
>Apologies for jumping into the middle here but if you're
OK with losing any
>data on the disk have you considered deleting one or all
the partitions
>during the set-up phase and resizing partitions,
reformatting and then
>installing... all from the XP CD?
>
>Hope that helps
>Pete
>--------------------------------
>
>"ken king" > wrote in message
...
>> Umm, that's what I meant to say. I've done that and
what
>> it says is that I have plenty of partitions, just none
of
>> them are XP compagible, and refuses to install the OS on
>> them. Any clues on where to go from here?
>>
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >Hello
>> >
>> >What am saying is to make your cdrom the primary boot
>> >device and run throught the loading process again and
>> >it will tell whatpartitions you have.
>> >
>> >Alvin
>> >
>> >
>> >ken king wrote:
>> >
>> >> Redo the processor? I don't follow you. The
processor
>> >> works fine, it's getting a bootable hard drive that
is
>> >> the problem. What did you mean? (data is *always*
>> >> backed up, this is the kind of luck I typically
>> >> have... )8
>> >>
>> >> >-----Original Message-----
>> >> >Redo the processor but make sure you backup your
data
>> >> >
>> >> >Alvin
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >Ken King wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >> Greetings:
>> >> >> Resized my HD (came as 1 60G partition), and
now it
>> >> >> won't boot. OK, in goes the CD for install - now
the
>> >> >> error message: "However, this disk does not
contain a
>> >> >> Windows XP-compatable partition." What do I need
to
>> >> >> do to get it going again?
>>
>
>
>.
>