Well, I'm not actually at my comp right now but it is FAT32.

Well, something happened when you reinstalled.

Are you sure you didn't repartition?

And no problem for the help dude. :)

Whoa ... lets try to get this thread back on track, ok? Name calling is for kiddies - keep that sorta stuff reserved for the geek's lounge forum, k?

Thanks ppl!

Yeah I'm sure. How do you think I could go about fixing this?

Obtain a partition manager program...partition magic pro.

Or partition your disks manually and reinstall Windows.

Those are your only two options. :)

i found a free one that works with XP. U need to use it off a boot disk and it's pretty complicated though.

Partition Magic (probably) won't loose all your data. fdisk will and is far more complex.

Why not just us a win98 boot disk type fdisk at the dos prompt and check #4 to check the size and howmany partitions and if need be delete repartition the drive .

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q255867

heres my advice to the first question

READ IF YOUR A NEWBIE

8+8=16+4=20gig

was I was trying to tell him is that he had two OS on his hardrive untill everyone picked it apart and plus I had just woke up so stop getting yourpanties in a bunch guys

try usin fdisk .
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q255867

heres my advice to the first question READ IF YOUR A NEWBIE was I was trying to tell him is that he had two OS on his hardrive untill everyone picked it apart and plus I had just woke up so stop getting your panties in a bunch guys

No, he formatted and reinstalled. That's not installing over a previous installation, that's wiping the drive clean and starting over.

His partitions are messed up. How that happened has yet to be determined.

By your math, he should have three partitions. Two 8 gig, and one 4 gig. If that were so, he should see three hard drives along with his cd-roms in My Computer, not one and two optical drives.

Jeff, you can use fdisk without damaging anything, as long as the only option you select is #4, to view information about the current partition table. Create a system boot disk, drop fdisk.exe on there and boot off of that floppy. Choose yes when a box pops up, then select #4. Tell us what that says.

I'm betting that it will show a partition of roughly 4100MB and ~16000MB unpartitioned. If that's the case, again, your partitions got messed up somehow. http://www.genmay.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=161930

I wrote that. I think it gives a decent definition of how fdisk works.

It sucks that it came down to that. WINBLOWS strikes again on the common user I rest my case

It sucks that it came down to that. WINBLOWS strikes again on the common user I rest my case

...and your precious *nix/BSD is any more user-friendly?


A tangent follows:

Here's something for you B: http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2002-10-11&res=l
http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2003-07-07&res=l

Look, just because you don't have the skills to run a simple linux box doesn't mean you have to be so upset with *nix ok.

Night Night feigned, it's obviously past your bedtime.

Look, just because you don't have the skills to run a simple linux box doesn't mean you have to be so upset with *nix ok. Night Night feigned, it's obviously past your bedtime.

When did I attack *nix? I was just pointing out the gaping hole in your statement.

I see the punctuation lesson helped out a smidge. I suggest you take more time to fully correct your statements. You know, for the good of mankind.

and...

Good luck Jeff! Let us know how it goes. :)

http://www.ranish.com/part/

Details of that free repartitioning program I told you about earlier. If the disk contains unpartitioned space, it should allow you to resize the partition without losing data.

are u sure u formatted properly cos if u run the installation straight over c: it wont delete anything so that might b u problem ?