XP PRO/FDISK Problem.

[MarksSE]

I am trying to load XP PRO on a hard drive, but I am unable to successfully remove an extended partition off the drive first. I *CAN* remove the primary partition only, leaving the extended partition on it, however, once I do that, then try to run the XP PRO setup it errors out during the start of the setup process and says something similar to "Windows needs at least 383 MB of disk space for temporary files... the necessary space cannot be found on your system...", or something of that wording. The disk is 60GB in size, but I'm sure it is due to the extended partition problem. How do I remove the extended partion? I am using a Windows 98 boot disk with FDISK on it... FDISK says it can't remove it, says logical drives exist, but none show up.

Thanks,

Mark

 

[bcastner]

Go to the web site of your hard disk manufacturer. Download their free diagnostic disk. Do a destructive low-level or zero format.

Boot again from the XP CD, create a partition, etc.

 

[MarksSE]

Why didn't I think of that! Thanks man!!! I've probably been jacking with it too long and 'can't see the forest from the trees'...

 

[Bobg1]

You probably have a partition that was created with something other than dos. If you happen to have something like partion magic, I believe they have an fdisk utility that may take care of it. Otherwise you migght give this a try

http://diskman.dyndns.org/

 

[linney]

261473 - Unable to Delete a Partition or Logical DOS Drive Using the Fdisk Utility

http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...port/kb/articles/Q261/4/73.ASP&NoWebContent=1

http://www.meixler-tech.com/pzapper/index.html?google

 

[endwarde]

There is a utility called Delpart.exe which you can download which allows you to delete NTFS partitions, if you need to do it by boot disk for whatever reason. Doing it through the XP CD Boot is the best way though.