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Did i overwrite my old partition? I only have 20 gigs left of disk spa

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JPirate

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Aug 11, 2003
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:'( I have a 40 gig hard disk, I recently... reinstalled my windows xp , but i wanted to delete or format my whole computer... and start it clean... but now... i looked at my disk space.. .and it seems i still have 20 gigs of memory used... I thought i commanded to overwrite that partition.... apparently it didint... what should i do to delete it?
 
run FDISK and look what partitions are there, you can do that with booting from your XP CD or any other bootable disk.

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Make use XP's Disk Management tool.

For details type "Manage basic volumes" in the XP Help and Support program.
 
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