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October 23rd, 2005 23:00
how do I go about deleting a logical disk drive?
When I reinstalled Windows I inadvertenly created two logical disk drives (C:) & (D:). I want to get rid of (D:). I have the printed instructions from Dell re fdisk but I am still uneasy about proceeding. What does it mean to "boot to your bootable media"? Do I need to obtain a DOS BOOT Diskette? Please help.
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Denny Denham
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October 24th, 2005 00:00
Fdisk is not required. You can get rid of D:\ using a program such as Partition Magic or you can do another reinstallation of XP and delete C:\ and D:\ then create a new C:\ from their combined space. (Unless the D:\ partition is highly irregular in size it may be convenient to keep it and use C:\ for the operating system and applications and D:\ for everything else. That saves backup time should you need to reinstall XP in the future.)
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October 24th, 2005 19:00
Denny Denham
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October 24th, 2005 20:00
You wrote, "ps: when the install was in progress I did get a prompt that said: "press any key to reboot from the cd". I didn't do this because a few seconds later the installation continued on its own."
That was a mistake. In order to do a clean install of XP you must boot from the CD, otherwise you are installing XP from within XP. The procedure for a clean install are given here. Note that as a part of the process you delete existing partitions (in your case, C:\ and D:\) then use the resulting unpartitioned space to create a new partition (or partitions). If you want only one partition, create a C:\ using all the unpartitioned space. To do this will require you to back up your perishable data since everything currently on C:\ and D:\ will be eliminated when the new partition(s) is/are formatted.