Making a Partition on Win7 for an XP machine

I have an XP machine that may be infected. It has a single 1Tb drive.
I saw this video and it made me wonder if I could just take the drive
out of the XP machine and put it in a Win7 machine and create a 40G
partition to re install XP and leave the rest of the data intact.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JV4HpJNgGs

On 29/09/2013 2:57 PM, Metspitzer wrote:
I have an XP machine that may be infected. It has a single 1Tb drive.
I saw this video and it made me wonder if I could just take the drive
out of the XP machine and put it in a Win7 machine and create a 40G
partition to re install XP and leave the rest of the data intact.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JV4HpJNgGs

Yeah, I see no reason why you can't use Win7's Disk Management to resize
the XP disk partitions.

Yousuf Khan

On 9/29/2013 11:57 AM, Metspitzer wrote:
I have an XP machine that may be infected. It has a single 1Tb drive.
I saw this video and it made me wonder if I could just take the drive
out of the XP machine and put it in a Win7 machine and create a 40G
partition to re install XP and leave the rest of the data intact.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JV4HpJNgGs


There are probably easier options at removing the malware from the
1 TB drive while it is still in the machine instead of messing around
with manipulating the partition in a Windows 7 machine. For starters,
one might want to consider visiting housecall.trendmicro.com, perform
the free scan of the drive and have it remove the malware. Doing this
in Safe Mode has proven effective at times. One other preferred option,
since an installation of Windows XP is involved in any event is to off-
load the data files, scan them and store them before performing either
(a) a new install of Windows XP or, alternately, (b) a repair install
of Windows XP.

GR

On Sun, 29 Sep 2013 15:02:34 -0400, Yousuf Khan
wrote:

On 29/09/2013 2:57 PM, Metspitzer wrote:
I have an XP machine that may be infected. It has a single 1Tb drive.
I saw this video and it made me wonder if I could just take the drive
out of the XP machine and put it in a Win7 machine and create a 40G
partition to re install XP and leave the rest of the data intact.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JV4HpJNgGs

Yeah, I see no reason why you can't use Win7's Disk Management to resize
the XP disk partitions.

Yousuf Khan

Does XP require the partition to be a primary or secondary? I once
had a drive with a 40G partition. I deleted the partition and
reformatted it and re installed XP. The system files ended up on one
of the partitions and the Windows directory ended up on the other.

The reason I deleted the partition was because I could not figure out
a way to format the partition without deleting it first.

On Sun, 29 Sep 2013 12:21:42 -0700, Ghostrider " 00 wrote:

On 9/29/2013 11:57 AM, Metspitzer wrote:
I have an XP machine that may be infected. It has a single 1Tb drive.
I saw this video and it made me wonder if I could just take the drive
out of the XP machine and put it in a Win7 machine and create a 40G
partition to re install XP and leave the rest of the data intact.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JV4HpJNgGs


There are probably easier options at removing the malware from the
1 TB drive while it is still in the machine instead of messing around
with manipulating the partition in a Windows 7 machine. For starters,
one might want to consider visiting housecall.trendmicro.com, perform
the free scan of the drive and have it remove the malware. Doing this
in Safe Mode has proven effective at times. One other preferred option,
since an installation of Windows XP is involved in any event is to off-
load the data files, scan them and store them before performing either
(a) a new install of Windows XP or, alternately, (b) a repair install
of Windows XP.

GR

I have spent lots of time unsuccessfully trying to clean a virus
before. I really think the easy way (for me) is starting over.

On Sun, 29 Sep 2013 15:30:40 -0400, Metspitzer
wrote:

I have spent lots of time unsuccessfully trying to clean a virus
before. I really think the easy way (for me) is starting over.


Which is easier and which is more effective depends on what virus it
is. But with most viruses, removing it is far easier than starting
over.

Metspitzer wrote:
On Sun, 29 Sep 2013 12:21:42 -0700, Ghostrider " 00 wrote:

On 9/29/2013 11:57 AM, Metspitzer wrote:
I have an XP machine that may be infected. It has a single 1Tb drive.
I saw this video and it made me wonder if I could just take the drive
out of the XP machine and put it in a Win7 machine and create a 40G
partition to re install XP and leave the rest of the data intact.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JV4HpJNgGs

There are probably easier options at removing the malware from the
1 TB drive while it is still in the machine instead of messing around
with manipulating the partition in a Windows 7 machine. For starters,
one might want to consider visiting housecall.trendmicro.com, perform
the free scan of the drive and have it remove the malware. Doing this
in Safe Mode has proven effective at times. One other preferred option,
since an installation of Windows XP is involved in any event is to off-
load the data files, scan them and store them before performing either
(a) a new install of Windows XP or, alternately, (b) a repair install
of Windows XP.

GR

I have spent lots of time unsuccessfully trying to clean a virus
before. I really think the easy way (for me) is starting over.


It's possible both the Windows 7 recovery console, and the
WinXP recovery console, have "diskpart". And that tool
is like Disk Management in terms of capabilities.

If you boot the WinXP CD to recovery console, and
use diskpart, you should be able to "clean" the MBR
(not "clean all", just "clean"). Then set up the partition
or partitions you want.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/300415

The installer CD should also be able to erase the
contents of the large partition, but the delay as
it writes all the sectors could be pretty long.
I don't know if it is clever enough to do the
"quick" format option. It might do the "long" one
instead.

Diskpart may give you better control, to a point.
And all you need, is a good Diskpart tutorial to help you.

I'd write down a set of commands, but you know
how lazy I am :-) Very lazy :-)

Paul

On 29/09/2013 3:29 PM, Metspitzer wrote:
Does XP require the partition to be a primary or secondary? I once
had a drive with a 40G partition. I deleted the partition and
reformatted it and re installed XP. The system files ended up on one
of the partitions and the Windows directory ended up on the other.

Yeah, I think even Win 7 requires the partition to be primary rather
than secondary. This is Windows, not Linux: nothing so flexible.

Yousuf Khan

Hi, Yousuf.

The System Partition (which contains either NTLDR or bootmgr - or both if
dual-booting) MUST be a Primary Partition. The Boot Volume (which contains
the entire \Windows folder tree) may be any partition, including a logical
drive in an extended partition, on any HDD in the computer.

Look in Disk Management's Status column for the "System" and "Boot" labels
to see which partition is currently serving which function.

RC
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San Marcos, TX

Microsoft Windows MVP (2002-2010)
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On 29/09/2013 3:29 PM, Metspitzer wrote:
Does XP require the partition to be a primary or secondary? I once
had a drive with a 40G partition. I deleted the partition and
reformatted it and re installed XP. The system files ended up on one
of the partitions and the Windows directory ended up on the other.

Yeah, I think even Win 7 requires the partition to be primary rather
than secondary. This is Windows, not Linux: nothing so flexible.

Yousuf Khan