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delete the partition, then format it to the size of 30 gig ntfs. Delete it to get rid of the conflicts of the info already on it.

after you running use diskmanager to format the remaining as D drive

Install XP

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http://faq.oit.gatech.edu/0305.html

Installing XP

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Setting up a new hard drive

1. install the new drive

2. Load xp

3. partion C: half size of drive or max 30 Gig

4. select (your country) English

5. (your country) Keyboard

6. delete us keyboard unless you are US.

7. Private leave company blank

8. Admin for first user

9. Skip network

After installed:

1. Identify

a. Chipset

b. Video

c. Sound

d. South Bridge (PCI card management)

e. Download from their manufactures site latest drivers

f. Usually the site is the www. Manufact name.com.tw (Taiwan)

2. Windows Update – Custom

a. Select some drivers but do not overwrite the three a,b,c, drivers from above.

3. set up D: (the other half of the new drive)

4. Move (not copy) my documents to D

Partition the Hard drive – reasons

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Firstly C drive is compulsory for the Operating System (XP) (Vista), and you install all your programs on C drive.

D drive is made for YOUR files.

What you do is MOVE my documents to D drive.

When you download music, videos, pictures from your camera or make any MS Office documents or save emails, you save it on D drive.

The reason for this is to do with

1. Hard drive failure - usually a failed hard drive will not boot, but can often be seen when hooked up as a slave.

So when you get your new hard drive up and running, you can copy D drive from your old to your new. You haven’t lost anything.

2. Virus. Normally virus are programmed to infect C drive. If you get a bad virus all that has to be done is format the C drive partition then re install you OS and programs from disks.

You haven’t lost your personal stuff because its on D drive.

3. Scanning your C drive for virus or spyware. These malware programs live on C drive. It is not necessary to scan D drive. It is a lot quicker to scan a small partition than a large hard drive.

Now you can see the above is compromised by the fact that programs get updates and lots of programs are installed from the net. Therefore if you had to wipe out C drive it be hard to get it back to how it was.

To remedy this we use Norton Ghost to image C drive and store the Image on D drive.

(Vista requires a version 10 or newer of Ghost).

If you get a bad virus you just use the Ghost disk to boot up on, then copy the image stored on D drive back over C drive.

It takes less than 30 mins to rebuild C drive.

Also you may have this running on say a 250 gig HDD, and it fails. You buy a new 400 gig HDD and install both into you computer, the failed one as a slave.

Using the ghost disk to boot up on, you partition the 400 C drive to 30 gig (XP)and the remaining to D drive. Then you repack C drive from the image. Then Copy your old D drive files to your new one. In a time of less than 1 hour and it’s all running. The image loads all the drivers, OS everything.

Then you update new images of C drive every few months so that the one stored on D drive is not to far out of date.

On XP and Vista you create C drive to a maximum of (XP 30 gig, Vista 40 Gig) It doesn’t need to be any bigger, so don’t make C drive to big as you will not use it.

Type DISKPART in windows help file

also Disk manager.

click the desktop, hit Fn1 key.

Vista:

http://www.lytebyte.com/2007/02/19/how-to-partitio...

This is another point of view that is very interesting

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6u_DHseKdu0

if you do this then in the future you can create another partition and install vista - another story, but your laptop be ready in that both OS could access your files on D drive.

As human beings have suggested leaving it on is probable a sturdy concept in spite of the actuality that i in my opinion have an aversion to dropping that lots electrical energy. putting it in sleep mode is what i might probable do (and do with my homestead computing device). Sleep mode will quite placed each thing all the way down to minimum tiers waiting which you will wake it up. each thing keeps to be open so it comes returned at as quickly as once you wake it up PLUS it makes use of way much less potential. Hibernate mode sucks. It makes use of a gaggle of puzzlingpersistent area (no longer sturdy). It does boot up somewhat quicker from hibernate yet no much less annoying on the equipment than in case you had close each thing down.

hi.when the system asks to restart remove the bootable disk and then restart ur system.