reinstalling windows?

Question

ok i've had to reinstall my windows earlier this week and then i was just told that i neeed to reconfigure my hard drive. i have an inspiron 8600 and do not have the dell pc system restore option. so when i go to reinstall windows it asks me which partition i want to install it on. what am i supposed to do from there?

thehoofbite · Answer

I know very little but I just recently had to do the same thing and will again as soon as my new hard drive arrives.    One of your partitions should be a good sizes (GREAT SIZE in my case) smaller than the other.  I was directed by Dell support (from what I could gather from his busted english) to select the bigger partition.

simpswr · Answer

This is a great guide for reinstalling on a Dell:  http://www.djdenham.com/Install%20Procedures.htm

ur2funny · Answer

they told me i had to reconfigure the hard drive bc after about half a day of being connected to the network it stopped responding and i can no longer connect to it

Denny Denham · Answer

ur2funny, Why were you told that you had to reconfigure your hard drive? What was wrong after you reinstalled XP?

ur2funny · Answer

is this what i have to do?-  go to the install screen, delete partition c, recreate partion c, and select that to install windows on. then use the other dell disks to reinstall everything else?

ur2funny · Answer

ok thanks that's what i'm going to do then

Denny Denham · Answer

ur2funny,

Yes, the C:\ partition should include most of your hard disk. There will be two other partitions, the ~35MB partition with Dell diagnostics and the 3-5GB partition withe PC Restore image on it. After XP is installed, install the chipset drivers first followed by the others in any order.

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