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roanoke   10-07-2003 at 04:30:57 PM

Hello,
I have reading posts here that say its better to partition your drive to have 5-8gb for the C and to leave the rest for storage in D. My problem is I have a compaq laptop that comes with 2 restore discs instead of the regular XP. And I dont know how to format and partition with these restore discs. I would greatly appreciate any advice, thank you.

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roanoke   10-07-2003 at 04:48:22 PM
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follow up:

when I put these discs in, everything is too simplified and I believe the only option the user has is to keep clicking "next" at the commands. It just restores the OS to the factory settings, using all of the hard drive as 1 partition. How do I get around this? This is XP Pro.

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WingDing   10-07-2003 at 05:42:14 PM
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You'll need a proper disk management utility. I recommend Partition Magic 8.0. If you do it properly you should be able to alter your partition settings without losing your data. Just make sure you know what you're doing.

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roanoke   10-07-2003 at 05:54:20 PM
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Do you think if it will work if I use a win98 bootdisk to partition the drive, then use compaq's version of XP to change fat32 to ntfs and put their OS on?

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WingDing   10-08-2003 at 11:56:19 AM
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No. You'd lose all the data on the disk, and I'm not sure whether the Compaq restore disks will do a full clean install of Windows XP on your system.

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goblinking   10-08-2003 at 05:08:56 PM
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It's possible you have a full XP install on those discs somewhere, especially given that you have two CDs. If you post the directory structure of the discs here, maybe we'll be able to help you track it down.

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