and the boot disk that comes with previous version of windows cannot see ntfs disks formatted by xp.. ----- Original Message ----- From: "David VanHorn" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.hardware.microcontrollers.pic Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 6:29 AM Subject: Re: [OT] Reinstalling XP > On 9/17/06, genome wrote: >> >> how large is the drive?? >> this is what you must do... >> try to format a disk in windows xp by right clicking drive A:> in windows >> explorer and select format then from the menu select copy system files or >> something that makes the floppy bootable.. you can boot from ths floppy >> assuming you have a floppy drive... and acces the drive at the dos >> promt.. >> then install windows xp by running setup in the i386 folder.. > > > I've done this, and although the drive IS partitioned and formatted, the > boot disk made in XP dosen't allow access to it, except by Fdisk. > > if you dont have a floppy drive... then takeout your disk again and slave > it >> on onother computer and then format it with FA32 and not NTFS.. then copy >> winxp installation files to that drive.. after this restart and boot to >> recovery console on the computer you used to format the drive.. and >> install >> msdos on the fat32 drive.. return the drive to the other comp, power up >> and >> msdos should boot.. now you can acces i386 folder and install windowsxp.. > > > That's probably what I'll have to try. What an amazing PITA. > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist