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changing partitioned hard drive to single with reformat
I have a Sony Vaio laptop running WinXP with a 14 gig hard drive. It was
configured with a partition that set approx 5 gig to the primary and 9 to the extended. It no longer boots correctly and I was not given Windows XP software to allow me access to the utilities that probably could fix the booting problem, so I am going to do a reformat according to the Sony Recovery software and just start over. I do not want it partitioned, so any ideas if the reformat will start this machine from scratch and allow me to use the hard drive as a single 14 gig drive or is the hard drive once partitioned always partitioned? The SOny software gives me two options- 1. Reformat drive C and install or 2. Reformat drive C & D and install. I assume that I need to do option 2 because there is a C and D due to the partition. I can probably fumble my way through the process and since I am starting from scratch if I screw up, it can always be reformatted again. But any suggestons or advice ahead of time would be helpful. Thanks, Z |
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changing partitioned hard drive to single with reformat
Hi ... I'm assuming you have a preinstall operating system of windows xp
with a recovery disc cd ... I beleive you will need to delete both partition and afterward just recreate just one partition , it should provide that option , once you created the one partition then just install windows which it should reformat and reinstall the operating system ... But the best steps to take would be is visit Sony website and see if they have information on how to perform a reinstallement of windows preinstall operating systems with just one partition "Zattack" wrote in message ... I have a Sony Vaio laptop running WinXP with a 14 gig hard drive. It was configured with a partition that set approx 5 gig to the primary and 9 to the extended. It no longer boots correctly and I was not given Windows XP software to allow me access to the utilities that probably could fix the booting problem, so I am going to do a reformat according to the Sony Recovery software and just start over. I do not want it partitioned, so any ideas if the reformat will start this machine from scratch and allow me to use the hard drive as a single 14 gig drive or is the hard drive once partitioned always partitioned? The SOny software gives me two options- 1. Reformat drive C and install or 2. Reformat drive C & D and install. I assume that I need to do option 2 because there is a C and D due to the partition. I can probably fumble my way through the process and since I am starting from scratch if I screw up, it can always be reformatted again. But any suggestons or advice ahead of time would be helpful. Thanks, Z |
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changing partitioned hard drive to single with reformat
Hi again ... I just surf their website and found this bit of informatiom
It is recommended to keep the C: and D: partitions to achieve the best compatibility with VAIO applications Now i don't know which model and type you have but i just went on whatever and it gave me that info on top , it also had everything you need to know in how to reinstall windows , You might want to have a look for yourself http://www.sonystyle.com/ "Road Runner" wrote in message ... Hi ... I'm assuming you have a preinstall operating system of windows xp with a recovery disc cd ... I beleive you will need to delete both partition and afterward just recreate just one partition , it should provide that option , once you created the one partition then just install windows which it should reformat and reinstall the operating system ... But the best steps to take would be is visit Sony website and see if they have information on how to perform a reinstallement of windows preinstall operating systems with just one partition "Zattack" wrote in message ... I have a Sony Vaio laptop running WinXP with a 14 gig hard drive. It was configured with a partition that set approx 5 gig to the primary and 9 to the extended. It no longer boots correctly and I was not given Windows XP software to allow me access to the utilities that probably could fix the booting problem, so I am going to do a reformat according to the Sony Recovery software and just start over. I do not want it partitioned, so any ideas if the reformat will start this machine from scratch and allow me to use the hard drive as a single 14 gig drive or is the hard drive once partitioned always partitioned? The SOny software gives me two options- 1. Reformat drive C and install or 2. Reformat drive C & D and install. I assume that I need to do option 2 because there is a C and D due to the partition. I can probably fumble my way through the process and since I am starting from scratch if I screw up, it can always be reformatted again. But any suggestons or advice ahead of time would be helpful. Thanks, Z |
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