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Steve

 posted on 16th Jan 05 at 18:59

go one better and do two SATA drives plugged into a raid controller card, raid 1 for integrity or raid 0 for performance :D


Tiger

 posted on 16th Jan 05 at 18:56

XP


Ren

 posted on 16th Jan 05 at 18:46

It would just be easier to backup everything on the D: onto either a load of CD's or get another hard-drive and install windows on that instead. Partitions suck in my opinion. I have 2 hard-drives, 160gb and 60gb, and whenever something goes wrong, i put it on my backup hard-disk, and format the 60gb one (which has windows, and all the core files)


willay

 posted on 16th Jan 05 at 18:46

which operating system tiggger?


Tiger

 posted on 16th Jan 05 at 18:43

How do you create a System Disk?


willay

 posted on 16th Jan 05 at 18:24

code:
format c:


is what you type.


modded_corsa

 posted on 16th Jan 05 at 18:21

and what commands do i use to format the c:

is it A:format <space> C: <space> U


willay

 posted on 16th Jan 05 at 18:19

yes


modded_corsa

 posted on 16th Jan 05 at 18:11

normally i use a floppy disk to format my hard-drives.......wot disk is this......

think it might be a startup disk....:boggle:


willay

 posted on 16th Jan 05 at 18:08

you use 'format' to format. fdisk is used to partition hard disks


modded_corsa

 posted on 16th Jan 05 at 18:02

i currently have Windows ME

i have a 20gb drive partitioned into:
c: = 4gb
d: = 16gb

i want to re-install windows ME as mine is currently playing up.......
i need to format the c: but without losing any information which is stored on the d:

i'll be using F-disk to format.....i think thats the one:look: but i cant remember the commands to format

like a: thn something like format>space>c:>space>U
is that the right command?

can then install windows ME again......:wave::thumbs:

the only reason i am not installing XP is because the partition what i have at the moment is FAT32 i think.....and XP use some other sort of file allocation table:look::boggle: and i dnt want to lose all information on my d:

:wave::thumbs: