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Ellen Fountain
My hard drive was replaced July 3 after failure of the
old one. The installation technician formatted the drive
(NTSF), and installed the XP-professional O/S. I have
reinstalled most of my software (PhotoShop, Dreamweaver,
Illustrator, PageMaker, InDesign, MSOffice, Acrobat).
PhotoShop recommends having its scratchdisk on a separate
partition.
Can I now go back and partition my 80GB disk into two
parts? One for XP and applications and one for data
including the PhotoShop scratch disk? Do I do this with
FDISK or how?
On searching the Microsoft Knowledge Base, I found this
article:
SUMMARY
This article describes the behavior of an installation to
a partition which is unformatted and is not the first
partition on the hard disk.
MORE INFORMATION
When you install Windows XP on a computer with an
unformatted hard disk, if the hard disk is partitioned
into more than one hard-linked partition (either by using
FDISK or text-mode Setup), you can choose to install to a
partition other than the first partition. However, before
Setup starts, the initial (system) partition(s) are
automatically formatted with the file system that was
chosen for the boot partition. By design, the formatting
of a subsequent partition before the formatting of the
initial partition is not allowed. This is because Setup
must format the first (system) partition of the primary
drive to store the required Windows XP start up files,
such as Boot.ini and Ntldr.
Does this mean that if I now partition my hard drive, it
will reformat the C drive too?
Thanks,
Ellen
old one. The installation technician formatted the drive
(NTSF), and installed the XP-professional O/S. I have
reinstalled most of my software (PhotoShop, Dreamweaver,
Illustrator, PageMaker, InDesign, MSOffice, Acrobat).
PhotoShop recommends having its scratchdisk on a separate
partition.
Can I now go back and partition my 80GB disk into two
parts? One for XP and applications and one for data
including the PhotoShop scratch disk? Do I do this with
FDISK or how?
On searching the Microsoft Knowledge Base, I found this
article:
SUMMARY
This article describes the behavior of an installation to
a partition which is unformatted and is not the first
partition on the hard disk.
MORE INFORMATION
When you install Windows XP on a computer with an
unformatted hard disk, if the hard disk is partitioned
into more than one hard-linked partition (either by using
FDISK or text-mode Setup), you can choose to install to a
partition other than the first partition. However, before
Setup starts, the initial (system) partition(s) are
automatically formatted with the file system that was
chosen for the boot partition. By design, the formatting
of a subsequent partition before the formatting of the
initial partition is not allowed. This is because Setup
must format the first (system) partition of the primary
drive to store the required Windows XP start up files,
such as Boot.ini and Ntldr.
Does this mean that if I now partition my hard drive, it
will reformat the C drive too?
Thanks,
Ellen