Beware - You seem to have multiple partitions on your drive.. If you are using a 'manufacturers' recovery disk, the recovery process may write a 'partition' image to use up the whole drive, (except for any special areas reserved for system recovery)
Booting from a floppy probably needs the BIOS to be set to try the floppy before the hard drive and the install process should , if it's a proper windows install, ask you about deleting partitions, using existing partitions, or creating new partitions, and - what format you want to use if you have a proper windows CD that should let you setup partitions, the thing is will your recovery cd process ignore any existing partitioning And - before wiping a partition - carefully read the system recovery documentation some systems have a list of the required drivers on the hard drive JimB ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sharol Cutrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2005 2:30 PM Subject: Re: Gateway 5005 plus > Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be a choice. IT won't boot from a > floppy, and I couldn't format it using ntfs anyway from there, and delete > partition is the only choice that Windows gives me. Never seen that before, > but oh, well. It is a Gateway. Maybe they dinked with the boot options. > > Could I boot from a different Windows CD and then bail after formatting the > partition? That way I would get all the options, right? > > Sharol > > -----Original Message----- > From: Windows Home/SOHO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Kylde > Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2005 7:44 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Gateway 5005 plus > > I wouldnt delete the partition if you're gonna rely on the recovery cd > (which should contain all the drivers you need), WIPE the partition > until it's empty, then go ahead (i.e. leave the partition size intact) > > Sharol Cutrell wrote on 17/09/2005, 13:25: > > > Does it seem logical that I should be able to delete the partition and > > install clean? The machine won't connect to any network, dialup or > > Ethernet, and runs like it is moving through molasses at this point. > > > -- > Regards > > Kylde > > -- > ---------------------------------------- > To Change your email Address for this list, send the following message: > CHANGE WIN-HOME your_old_address your_new_address > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Note carefully that both old and new addresses are required. > > -- ---------------------------------------- To Change your email Address for this list, send the following message: CHANGE WIN-HOME your_old_address your_new_address to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note carefully that both old and new addresses are required.
