Disk Partitions??

[Richard]

I have recently done a clean install of Win ME. All seems
to have gone well But I have noticed that the capacity
shown for my C Drive has gone from 13 Gb to 7 Gb. I
cannot see another partition or another drive. Have I
inadvertantly partitioned my hard drive?
If so can I unpartition it without going through the
complete reinstall again?
Thanks in advance

[Rick T]

Richard wrote:

> I have recently done a clean install of Win ME. All seems
> to have gone well But I have noticed that the capacity
> shown for my C Drive has gone from 13 Gb to 7 Gb. I
> cannot see another partition or another drive. Have I
> inadvertantly partitioned my hard drive?
> If so can I unpartition it without going through the
> complete reinstall again?
> Thanks in advance

what does FDISK have to say about it ?

in a DOS Window, type

FDISK /STATUS


it should tell you if you have another (unformatted) partition hanging
around.


Rick

[sierrad]

I tried this and my computer is telling me that fdisk is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file

[Rick T]

sierrad wrote:

> I tried this and my computer is telling me that fdisk is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file

Said all that, eh?... where did you type it in at ?


Rick

[sierrad]

c:
and I don't have XP cds because it came with my system. I was trying to install a clean copy of XP from system32.exe. I installed some weird version of Windows, because it didn’t have any drivers and looked terrible. So I tried to remove it. The computer installed it in what it is calling partition 1 and calling it Windows.0. I deleted the windows.0 from the C drive, but when the computer boots up it tells me that my hal.dll file is missing or corrupt; then I press F8 and then it gives me the option of selecting either of the operating systems it thinks it has. But it can’t have them both, can it? I deleted one, I think. This al comes from a severely infected computer that I have tried to clean now for 2 weeks. I have Norton, AVG, adware, and spybot. The computer is still telling me that I have some Trojan in my system32, so I turned off my system restore and ran AVG again - it found nothing.

All I need to do is remove the additional operating system. Remain with the crappy infected stuff I had and make it work ....aghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
PLEASE help me.

[Rick T]

sierrad wrote:

> c: and I don't have XP cds because it came with my system. I was
> trying to install a clean copy of XP from system32.exe. I installed
> some weird version of Windows, because it didn’t have any drivers and
> looked terrible. So I tried to remove it. The computer installed it
> in what it is calling partition 1 and calling it Windows.0. I deleted
> the windows.0 from the C drive, but when the computer boots up it
> tells me that my hal.dll file is missing or corrupt; then I press F8
> and then it gives me the option of selecting either of the operating
> systems it thinks it has. But it can’t have them both, can it? I
> deleted one, I think. This al comes from a severely infected computer
> that I have tried to clean now for 2 weeks. I have Norton, AVG,
> adware, and spybot. The computer is still telling me that I have some
> Trojan in my system32, so I turned off my system restore and ran AVG
> again - it found nothing.
>
> All I need to do is remove the additional operating system. Remain
> with the crappy infected stuff I had and make it work
> ....aghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! PLEASE help me.


You should really post this to a WindowsXP newsgroup (these are
WindowsMillenium groups).

microsoft.public.windowsxp.general for instance.


Good Luck


Rick