FDisk replacement

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Paul Bronson

What do you use in XP to replace FDisk.

I have two Hard drives C:\ and E:\ The 2nd is a copy of
the C:\ done through Partition Magic.

I want to make the 2nd the bootable C:\
The current 1st drive C:\ is a stop start unreliable drive.
The 2nd is currently E:\ and is new and OK.

How do I go about this without FDisk that is not a part of
XP?
 
Hi Paul,
Go to Control Panel->Performance and Maintenance->Administrative
Tools->Computer management and there choose Disk Management.
There is the tool for partitioning, assigning new letters, etc.
HTH,
Frankie.
 
Make yourself a DOS or Win9x boot disk with FDISK on it.

DOS will show NTFS as HPFS, but can still delete the
partition while WIN will show NTFS correctly. Both will
show incorrect sizes for very large drives.

Win98 boot with fdisk is better if you want to format
from floppy to FAT32.

Best is to kill partitions and let XP partition and
format.

Last, if you used PM or a Linux tool to partition, you
may have to use it again to remove certain custom or
proprietary partitions used for boot manager or Linux OS.
 
Frankie

I don't want to lose the way C:\ is currently set up as
some of the software firms charge to set up again. This is
the reason why I have replicated C:\ onto E:\ with
Partition Magic.

The disk management feature you describe will not allow me
to rename E:\ to C:\ which is what I would like to do,
then after being sure the new C:\ is OK I will format the
old 1st drive.

Any suggestions on the procedure to use?


Paul
 
Paul said:
What do you use in XP to replace FDisk.

I have two Hard drives C:\ and E:\ The 2nd is a copy of
the C:\ done through Partition Magic.

I want to make the 2nd the bootable C:\
The current 1st drive C:\ is a stop start unreliable drive.
The 2nd is currently E:\ and is new and OK.

How do I go about this without FDisk that is not a part of
XP?
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Using the 'jumpers' on the drives,
set the new drive as Primary-Master,
set the old drive to anything else (Primary-Slave, Secondary-Master,
Secondary-slave)
Have the BIOS autodetect new setup, new drive will now be 'C' and should
boot (if it's a copy of original)
 
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