You may want to be aware that XP (and Windows 2000 as well) add additional
partition information beyond what FDISK does. I partitioned a disk using
Win2k and found that the partitions were slightly different than what I got
using Windows NT. Similarly, FDISK also results in a somewhat different
partion. I am not an expert on the Win2k/XP partition structure, but I did
note that it is different.

Peter
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-----Original Message-----
If this is a stand alone mach...then there is no reason to log in as
administrator...the default administrator password that XP creates is
administrator with no password...you can boot with a boot disk with cd
rom drivers on it and make sure you have fdisk...use fdisk to do your
partitioning & then reboot with your boot disk & choose to install from
the Cd...that should take care of your problems...

Steve

>>> [log in to unmask] 12/21/01 19:30 PM >>>
I have tried to re-partition a hard drive in XP but had no luck.  (You
don't even want to
know what happened with that!)  I can change partition sizes if I have
more then one
already, but try it with just one partition... Yikes!

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