Err how does one go about formatting a hard disk that has a half completed install of XP upon it?
Mate of mine was given a hard disk with xp installed,it had a lot of stuff on it he did not want so I changed the boot device to the floppy in bios and formated it using a win 98 boot disk,so far so good,next tried to do a new instal from his XP CD, but it was not a bootable disc,so I load ed win 98 back on then tried to upgrade,it got halfway throught the instal and reported there was not enough disk space? tiz a forty gig disk.
Seems the disk space is being wrongly supported.
Is there such a thing as a boot disk for XP?similar to the win 98 rescue disk? ie one that has the format command, fdisk, chdsk ect,so I can start from scratch,format the disk then do a clean XP install?
Any help gratefully accepted been fannying with the buggah for about six hours.
