try usin fdisk .
http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;q255867

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.

Thanks again for all your help. I think I know what I need to do. Unfortunatly I wont have time to do it until this weekend at the latest. When I do get it done, I'll write back and let you know how it went. Thanks again for all your help. Wish me luck! :cheesy:

By the way, nice write-up on the FDisk. :p

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.php...02-10-11&res=l
http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php...03-07-07&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.

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.

Thanks feigned! I'll let you know. :mrgreen:

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 ?