In the XP Pro installation routine, do not choose the existing partition. When you get to that point, delete all existing partitions. Then create a new partition of whatever size you want for the OS.
Carl -----Original Message----- From: Windows Home/SOHO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vincent Winterling Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 12:50 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Invalid Drive Partition 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 -- ---------------------------------------- WIN-HOME Archives: http://PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM/archives/WIN-HOME.html Contact the List Owner about anything: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html -- ---------------------------------------- WIN-HOME Archives: http://PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM/archives/WIN-HOME.html Contact the List Owner about anything: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html
