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i have fitted a new hard drive and when i tried to install XP it gave me no
option to use FAT32,so i cancelled and re-booted and all i get is a operating
system error.What do i need to do to enable me to format the drive and
install XP (home edition).It must be small enough to fit on a floppy disk and
simple to use.By the way the new drive is set to master.

Thank you for taking time to read this

Alan
 
al52 said:
i have fitted a new hard drive and when i tried to install XP it gave me no
option to use FAT32,
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That would be because the drive is larger than 40 gig. The XP install will
not format disks that large as FAT, only as NTFS. IIRC, XP won't do this
at all, aside from the installer.

so i cancelled and re-booted and all i get is a operating
system error.What do i need to do to enable me to format the drive and
install XP (home edition).
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You just need to boot with a Win9x or WinME floppy and partition/format the
disk from there.
It must be small enough to fit on a floppy disk and
simple to use.By the way the new drive is set to master.
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Use a Win98/ME boot diskette with fdisk and format on it.

However, unless you absolutely need to give direct access to the drive with
some other operating system, NTFS is generally better. If you're going to
give access to the drive over a network while XP is running, the disk
format type won't make a difference. XP will handle the disk requests.

If you're dual-booting XP and Win9x or DOS, there could be a good reason to
format FAT.

HTH
-pk
 
If this new drive is the only drive connected to your PC then check the
jumper settings in the user's guide again. There may be a setting for only
one drive.

JS
 
al52 said:
i have fitted a new hard drive and when i tried to install XP it gave me no
option to use FAT32,
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How large is the hard drive/partition in question? By design,
WinXP cannot create and format a new partition greater than 32 Gb. This
is because NTFS is the superior file system, and not nearly as wasteful
of drive space. (If you make a FAT32 partition larger than 8 Gb, you're
"throwing away" significant amounts of storage capacity. However, the
OS has no problems being installed upon or otherwise using FAT32 a
partition larger than 32 GB, as long as that partition has been
created/formatted by another OS, such as Win98.

so i cancelled and re-booted and all i get is a operating
system error.What do i need to do to enable me to format the drive and
install XP (home edition).It must be small enough to fit on a floppy disk and
simple to use.By the way the new drive is set to master.
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Simply boot from the WinXP installation CD. You'll be offered the
opportunity to delete, create, and format partitions as part of the
installation process. (You may need to re-arrange the order of boot
devices in the PC's BIOS to boot from the CD.)

HOW TO Install Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;316941

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/clean_install.htm


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al52 said:
i have fitted a new hard drive and when i tried to install XP it gave me no
option to use FAT32,so i cancelled and re-booted and all i get is a operating
system error.What do i need to do to enable me to format the drive and
install XP (home edition).It must be small enough to fit on a floppy disk and
simple to use.By the way the new drive is set to master.

Thank you for taking time to read this
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Many many thanks to all of you.i have my drive up and running.
 
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