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Posted by Doug Knox MS-MVP on May 2, 2006, 11:51 am
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Repair installations of MCE are generally considered a bad idea. Best =
to start over from scratch.
As to creating partitions, with Disk Management, No. You must already =
have the unpartitioned space available. Disk Management does not include =
the ability to resize existing partitions. For this you need a utility =
like BootIt Next Generation (disk and boot manager) or Partition Magic.
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> I'm getting closer to rebuilding my PC after Nero 7 broke it.
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> I was just going to back everything up, reformat and start from =
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> probably putting a 50Gb system partition and 150Gb data partition on =
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> drive. The 'back everything up' obviously still stands.
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> I was wondering if anyone had any experience of XP repair installation =
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> =
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> . If so, what does it do? Does it effectively wipe the disk and start =
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> Does it fix XP but leave all the other programs OK (surely not)? or =
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> Might it be useful?
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> I was also wondering whether I could use Disk Management to create a =
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so, could=20
> I use this to create the partition before I start, backup all my data =
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> there and then just concentrate on rebuilding the system partition, =
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> the knowledge that my data is safe?
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> Or am I dreaming - is it best to just accept that it is going to be =
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> get it back?
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> Cheers
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> Eric
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