Help Need to Format Win XP Pro

[WishMaster]

Can someone help me. I need to format my hardrive so that I can partion it correctly. I don't want to use partition magic or other 3rd party software. I want to reformat and then create the partition myself. I'm good with win 98. I have done reformatting severla times. Now that I installed win XP Pro and as NTFS, I'm puzzled. Can someone help. Do I need to create a boot disk for win xp pro. My pc has options to boot from cd. Thanks for any help.

 

[rok]

Hi wishmaster,

the only way i know how to creatie partions manually is with fdisk.

Make a boot-disk with win98 -> boot
the type in fdisk

now you can partion your harddisk at your will.

WARINING: its NOT so simple and all your data will be lost if you do new partions.

 

[WishMaster]

Thanks. So on a NTFS system, I can use win 98 fdisk? I dont care about the data, I already backed it up.

 

[jw50]

If you boot to the XP CD and select Advanced Options during the Setup it should give you the option to create and name multiple partitions.

 

[Lonman]

Originally posted by WishMaster
Thanks. So on a NTFS system, I can use win 98 fdisk?

Yes. It won't 'recognize' ntfs, but it will recognize your 'NON-DOS' partitions and you can delete and recreate them. You'll need to use XP's setup to format in ntfs.