Partition problem with xp pro install

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Clarity

Have probably done this a million times but never saw anything like this. I
moved my stuff to drive D, fdisked C and then installed xp pro with ntfs. I
ended up with xp on drive F and everything from drive d on drive c. Realize
I can't change F since xp on that now unless I wanna redo it all. Any ideas
about what could have happened or what I should do now? Burner and CD are
now drives D and E. Guess I've always liked the convention of operating
system on C with D as second drive for storage. Should I any of the drive
assignments? Would it be alright to just leave it or do I really need to
redo it all just to get it the conventional way. Could this cause problems?
Thanks for any advice.
 
Hi Clarity - I ended up with exactly the same situation last week - I
suspect your original D drive is formatted as FAT32.
Now there may be better ways of sorting this than I am aware of but try
these if nobody comes up with something better.

1) If your original D drive is a separate physical drive try disconnecting
it and then reinstall XP.

OR:

2) This is what I chose to do which worked OK:
a) Fdisk your newly produced F drive.
b) Now install XP using FAT 32 (if your drive is over 32Gb best to format
the drive first using Partition Magic (V8 is the latest).
c) Once the OS is up and running ( it should hopefully now be your C drive)
convert it to NTFS.
d) Start/Run type cmd and use the folling command: CONVERT C: /FS:NTFS
e) Accept any messages that are presented and you will now have a NTFS C
drive.
f) Finally, do a disk error check on the new partition.

As I said this is whatI did and all is fine.

Rod
 
Thanks for the advice. Was kind of afraid that is what I'd need to do. Not
too crazy about that since it took hours. Now just wondering if I should go
aehad and do it or if it's ok to just leave it?
 
I would not want to leave the operating system on anything other than C
drive - thats why I took the plunge. Time spent now will pay off in the
long run with a stable environment.

Rod
 
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