Recent content by mcladam

Yes, it worked! One 18GB partition, and a machine that now works. My next question is ... how do I stop XP dialling my ISDN connection every 5 minutes? Anyway, I will search the forums and find out. Thank you for your help. Mike

I am in the UK, and was fast asleep while you guys here discussing my problem ... that's what I call an efficient service! I think the mistake I made was not booting from the upgrade disk. I am going to try that. My understanding is that before I get to the 'delete partition' bit the...

Thank you for your help ... I re-installed XP, and found that: 1. my data is mostly still there (I wanted a completely fresh start) 2. all the programs are uninstalled (good!) 3. the second partition is gone. I want to try again with a completely clean disk. I have two questions: 1. How do I...

The good news is that I have a backup of all my data. The bad news is that the first partition woudl not delete - apparently files were in us. Looks like I may have blown away the last 3gb of my drive by deleting the second partition. Can I get it back - in effect joining the missing 3gb back to...

I am in the middle of upgrading to Windows XP Home for the second time after a dody upgrade to Win 98 that left my machine unstable. I chose to do a clean install having read the forums. My hard drive had 2 partitions, both FAT. I chose to delete the second partition during install, because I...