Deleting partitions, I want to regain my whole hard drive into one

[genemcdaniel]

I have XP Pro installed on both partitions, I have a 20GB hard drive.with two partitions of 9.??gb I want to have just one whole hard drive how do I do this I have no problem of formating the whole hard drive but it will not allow that..I tried booting fro
m CD but I was not able to do that eather..no place in BIOs to set up the boot choice.

[Alex Nichol]

genemcdaniel wrote:

>I have XP Pro installed on both partitions, I have a 20GB hard drive.with two partitions of 9.??gb I want to have just one whole hard drive how do I do this I have no problem of formating the whole hard drive but it will not allow that..I tried booting fr
om CD but I was not able to do that eather..no place in BIOs to set up the boot choice.

If you are happy to clear the disk totally and start over, (personally
I'd leave it as it is, but your choice), then You do it as part of a
reinstall of the system after booting the XP CD direct. Enter Setup,
and after the license agreement take New Install. When it asks you to
confirm where, hit ESC; select and delete the current partitions and
make a new RAW one of the desired size to be formatted at the next stage


--
Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K. (remove the D8 bit)

[Alex Nichol]

genemcdaniel wrote:

>I have XP Pro installed on both partitions, I have a 20GB hard drive.with two partitions of 9.??gb I want to have just one whole hard drive how do I do this I have no problem of formating the whole hard drive but it will not allow that..I tried booting fr
om CD but I was not able to do that eather..no place in BIOs to set up the boot choice.

If you are happy to clear the disk totally and start over, (personally
I'd leave it as it is, but your choice), then You do it as part of a
reinstall of the system after booting the XP CD direct. Enter Setup,
and after the license agreement take New Install. When it asks you to
confirm where, hit ESC; select and delete the current partitions and
make a new RAW one of the desired size to be formatted at the next stage


--
Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K. (remove the D8 bit)

[Alex Nichol]

genemcdaniel wrote:

>I have XP Pro installed on both partitions, I have a 20GB hard drive.with two partitions of 9.??gb I want to have just one whole hard drive how do I do this I have no problem of formating the whole hard drive but it will not allow that..I tried booting fr
om CD but I was not able to do that eather..no place in BIOs to set up the boot choice.

If you are happy to clear the disk totally and start over, (personally
I'd leave it as it is, but your choice), then You do it as part of a
reinstall of the system after booting the XP CD direct. Enter Setup,
and after the license agreement take New Install. When it asks you to
confirm where, hit ESC; select and delete the current partitions and
make a new RAW one of the desired size to be formatted at the next stage


--
Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K. (remove the D8 bit)

[Alex Nichol]

genemcdaniel wrote:

>I have XP Pro installed on both partitions, I have a 20GB hard drive.with two partitions of 9.??gb I want to have just one whole hard drive how do I do this I have no problem of formating the whole hard drive but it will not allow that..I tried booting fr
om CD but I was not able to do that eather..no place in BIOs to set up the boot choice.

If you are happy to clear the disk totally and start over, (personally
I'd leave it as it is, but your choice), then You do it as part of a
reinstall of the system after booting the XP CD direct. Enter Setup,
and after the license agreement take New Install. When it asks you to
confirm where, hit ESC; select and delete the current partitions and
make a new RAW one of the desired size to be formatted at the next stage


--
Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K. (remove the D8 bit)