Help on Win-XP Upgrade!!

[Threqu]

hi,

I am have a Win-NT machine and trying to get it upgraded
to Win-XP. My current Windows Partition looks like this:

C: 2039.5 MB FAT
G: 3,992.7 MB FAT 32
D: 6950 MB NTFS

Previously G: contained the Linux installation. Almost 2GB
of the C: is used and mostly contains the Win-NT and the
MS-Office -97 . I bought a Win-Xp upgrade to move from Win-
NT to XP. While installing XP it complained that I will
need another 1.3 GB for XP installation on C:. I tried to
remove all the stuff in C: except Win-NT dir and the MS-
Office-97 still it consuming close to 2GB. So I formated
the Linux partition to FAT 32 (G:). And tried to use
Partition Magic to combine C: and G: to a bigger drive.
Partition Magic has the option of making G: a folder under
C:. But when I booted the next time, Partition Magic
failed to combine the two partitions and gave this error
message:

Error 2003: File Size does not match FAT allocation for
file.

I am stuck here and not able to combine the c: and g: and
hence not able to upgrade to Win-XP.

Please Help!!


Thanks,
Threqu

[Yves Leclerc]

Unless you convert the G: (Fat32) to the same FAT format, you will never be
able to combine the two partitions.

There is another option. Backup all your important documents and delete C:
& G: partitions. Then, let XP define a new C: partition. The XP upgrade CD
does allow for you to do a full install, but you need the original NT CD so
as to let the upgrade check for upgrade rights.

BTW: You could use Partition Magic to convert C: to FAT32, but this would
render the C: un-bottable, since NT does not like Fat32.

Yves

"Threqu" > wrote in message
...
> hi,
>
> I am have a Win-NT machine and trying to get it upgraded
> to Win-XP. My current Windows Partition looks like this:
>
> C: 2039.5 MB FAT
> G: 3,992.7 MB FAT 32
> D: 6950 MB NTFS
>
> Previously G: contained the Linux installation. Almost 2GB
> of the C: is used and mostly contains the Win-NT and the
> MS-Office -97 . I bought a Win-Xp upgrade to move from Win-
> NT to XP. While installing XP it complained that I will
> need another 1.3 GB for XP installation on C:. I tried to
> remove all the stuff in C: except Win-NT dir and the MS-
> Office-97 still it consuming close to 2GB. So I formated
> the Linux partition to FAT 32 (G:). And tried to use
> Partition Magic to combine C: and G: to a bigger drive.
> Partition Magic has the option of making G: a folder under
> C:. But when I booted the next time, Partition Magic
> failed to combine the two partitions and gave this error
> message:
>
> Error 2003: File Size does not match FAT allocation for
> file.
>
> I am stuck here and not able to combine the c: and g: and
> hence not able to upgrade to Win-XP.
>
> Please Help!!
>
>
> Thanks,
> Threqu

[Jim Macklin]

The cluster size must be the same to combine two partitions.
Partition Magic can change cluster sizes.

Why not delete Office 97 from the C:\ partition and after
you finish installing XP on C:\ you can install Office 97 on
G: or D:.

Since you are going to install XP, you can convert G:\ to
NTFS if you want, PM will do that.


"Yves Leclerc" > wrote in message
...
| Unless you convert the G: (Fat32) to the same FAT format,
you will never be
| able to combine the two partitions.
|
| There is another option. Backup all your important
documents and delete C:
| & G: partitions. Then, let XP define a new C: partition.
The XP upgrade CD
| does allow for you to do a full install, but you need the
original NT CD so
| as to let the upgrade check for upgrade rights.
|
| BTW: You could use Partition Magic to convert C: to
FAT32, but this would
| render the C: un-bottable, since NT does not like Fat32.
|
| Yves
|
| "Threqu" > wrote in message
| ...
| > hi,
| >
| > I am have a Win-NT machine and trying to get it upgraded
| > to Win-XP. My current Windows Partition looks like this:
| >
| > C: 2039.5 MB FAT
| > G: 3,992.7 MB FAT 32
| > D: 6950 MB NTFS
| >
| > Previously G: contained the Linux installation. Almost
2GB
| > of the C: is used and mostly contains the Win-NT and the
| > MS-Office -97 . I bought a Win-Xp upgrade to move from
Win-
| > NT to XP. While installing XP it complained that I will
| > need another 1.3 GB for XP installation on C:. I tried
to
| > remove all the stuff in C: except Win-NT dir and the MS-
| > Office-97 still it consuming close to 2GB. So I formated
| > the Linux partition to FAT 32 (G:). And tried to use
| > Partition Magic to combine C: and G: to a bigger drive.
| > Partition Magic has the option of making G: a folder
under
| > C:. But when I booted the next time, Partition Magic
| > failed to combine the two partitions and gave this error
| > message:
| >
| > Error 2003: File Size does not match FAT allocation for
| > file.
| >
| > I am stuck here and not able to combine the c: and g:
and
| > hence not able to upgrade to Win-XP.
| >
| > Please Help!!
| >
| >
| > Thanks,
| > Threqu
|
|