Page 1 of Help, unable to delete partition

Hi all,

Im trying to re install xp but when I get to the bit where Im asked to delete / create a partition it will not let me delete my partition stating that windows has files needed for the re install of xp.

My drive is only 10gb and has about 2-gig left, I have tried to create another partition but nothing happens.

This happened once before and I just re installed xp over the existing one and ended up with double the hard drive space used up.

Can anyone shed any light on this please?

Thanks

Can you still get into Windows? If you can does disk manager show the partition?

Do you have a bootbale floppy you could try and use to delete the partition?

Cheers

Nick

Are you booting from the CD?

If you want to completely wipe the HDD(s) in a PC try the DBAN Linux utility which destroys all data & partitions on all HDD`s in a machine.

******MAKE SURE YOUR DATA DRIVE OR PARTITION IS NOT IN THE PC OK!!!!!!!!!!!!!******


I consider myself an optimist, albeit an optimist with cynical tendencies and a dark side that Lucifer himself would find a little creepy. (Perhaps you've noticed.) You don't normally associate cynicism with an upbeat pov. But I have exactly that combination and will defend it.

This item was edited on Tuesday, 7th November 2006, 23:55

Well I did it, thanks to all for the advise but I had to go with Rassilon, a good piece of kit it is too, up and running again.

Thanks again.

Paul

No problemo.

Never use DBAN to wipe a Tiny or machines that have a "hidden" partition on the HDD prior to using the restore CD\DVD as someone at my place of work found out.


I consider myself an optimist, albeit an optimist with cynical tendencies and a dark side that Lucifer himself would find a little creepy. (Perhaps you've noticed.) You don't normally associate cynicism with an upbeat pov. But I have exactly that combination and will defend it.