Brand new never-before-used hard drive?  Nothing you need to preserve on it?

Then: Just boot the Windows XP CD and follow along.   You do the partition
sizing and volume formatting as part of the installation.  You can choose
NTFS at that time - so no FAT32/NTFS conversion needed.

If there is a something on this hard drive you need to preserve, then more
detailed information about the prior operating system, and/or the data that
needs preserving, is needed before advice can be given.

Carl

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[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Adam Favre
Sent: Monday, May 31, 2004 10:49 PM
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Subject: [PCBUILD] Installing and Partitioning Hard Drive in a New Build

I am transferring my Westernd Digital 160g harddrive to the new pc I am
building.  This is a first, as I have said before.

How will I partition this drive without Windows XP installed?  Once Windows
XP installs, how can I partition the hard drive without wiping out my OS?  I
know the drive came with an install and partitioning utility (DATA
LIFEGUARD), but I can't wrap my mind around this.

My uncle recommended obtaining a boot disc that would then allow me to run
FDISK to accomplish this formatting and partitioning.  Then, once Windows
was installed, I could convert the entire drive to the NTFS from FAT32.  Any
insight?

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