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  1. patrickshort13

    NTFS Partition problem for new HDD

    Okay, Here's where I am at now. I hooked the new 20GB IBM drive to the good HP computer as a slave drive. Ran diskmgmt.msc. It will only allow me to make a partition of 2GB. I do not understand this. This is the same problem I had using Paragorn Drive Image. It would allow me to partition...
  2. patrickshort13

    NTFS Partition problem for new HDD

    Both computers are identical HP XT963 model that came WinXP already installed. They did not come with XP cd's. HP states you can get the cd if needed but tech support says they don't have any and never did. The damaged computer will not let me get to the restore partition but the good computer...
  3. patrickshort13

    NTFS Partition problem for new HDD

    Thanks for the help. Therein lies the whole problem. I do not have an XP cd. These two HP machines (both from walmart, MY boss bought them not me) did not come with XP cd. It states in the paperwork you have to call HP to get XP cd if you need it. I did this and they tell me they don't have...
  4. patrickshort13

    NTFS Partition problem for new HDD

    I'll try to give some more detail. The drive will partition with fdisk Fat32 to 19.8Gb. I've tried to then convert it to NTFS but I can't seem to get that to work. I have not tried XP disk management (unaware of it). I will try that. I don't think IBM has a drive transferring tool unless I...
  5. patrickshort13

    NTFS Partition problem for new HDD

    I have a couple of computers at work I take care of. I have one problem I can't seem to solve. A HP running WinXP lost it hard drive. I bought a 20GB hard drive to replace it. My plan was to format and partition then copy the contents of another HP system (exact same model). The problem is I...

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