Have a small problem that has been causing me some great trials for several
hours now.
I was playing around with BootIT NG in an attempt to understand it's
capabilities for partitioning drives.
In so doing, I seriously munged the boot partition on the XP Pro partition
that I boot from (Western Digital 250 gb SATA) and have been unable to boot
from that partition ever since. I receive an error message to the effect
that I have an Invalid Drive Partition.
I did some research but can't seem to get info on how to properly format the
drive so as to do a clean install. Each time I load the XP Pro disk it will
offer to format the existing partition which I want it to do, it completes
formatting as expected, copies files, all looks good, completes the first
phase of installation and then re-starts only to commence at the beginning
of offering to format.
I've tried to format the drive by formatting an 80 gb SATA (also a WD) with
XP Pro which works fine and I am up and running (had an image that updated
the new install to last week)-almost. I would very much like to use the
bigger drive for my OS and other goodies but can't get it formatted.
Any suggestions for dealing with the Invalid Drive Partition?
Thanks
Vince
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