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Problem at new simple volume..
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Ok, I have confirmed what happened. It appears that Disk Management auto creates the extended partition and puts a logical partition there when you add a 4th partition.
That means we will need to use diskpart the command line version of Disk Management to add a 4th primary partition.
I'll write how to do that and post back.
Ive only done checkdisk (its i believe on the 2nd page that ScottW posted. Is it the same way with diskpart? going into boot cd and then clicking repair and then command prompt? and just a early thank you for all this support. I expect anyone to go this far just to help me out. Thank you JD2066 and ScottW.
Edit: Reply to question just seen: As shown below you can run diskpart in Windows, you don't need to load the Command Prompt from the CD.
Ok, I have it figured out.
In Disk Management:
Do the delete like before until it says "Unallocated Space" again
Start Diskpart:
Click the start button.
In the search box type diskpart.exe and press enter.
Click Continue.
In Diskpart type the following commands and press enter after each one:
select disk 0
create partition primary
exit
In Disk Management Again:
Right click on the new partition and click format.
Select NTFS under file system and click ok.
Now if you want to access the Windows XP partition from Windows Vista right click on the partition and click "Change Drive Letter and Paths", click add, select a letter and press ok.
I think this same topic should work.
As for drivers you cannot use the same drivers in Windows Vista and Windows XP. You will need to find drivers for Windows XP. Which can be tricky to find sometimes. If you list your computer make and model I can try to help you find them.
Also probably a bit late to say I and many others here actully like Windows Vista and prefer it over Windows XP. It just takes a bit of getting used to. You can use which you like of course.
Ok. I've answered many posts and I think I may have mixed this one up with the many others that say they don't like Vista when I wrote that. I can see the need of both. I sometimes do to. My computer has Vista, XP and Gentoo Linux.
On drivers after you install Windows XP you can tell what you need in Device Manager as there will be marked with Yellow Icons.
You may need an SATA driver before that too if get the "No Hard Drives Found" error.
I just looked on support.dell.com and it appears there are Windows XP drivers for that model. You will want to enter your Dell Service Tag there so the drivers are limited to just the ones in your machine.
Edit: Just saw your reply. It seems you are replying faster then me. DriverAgent is one option if the manufactor doesn't provide the drivers. Sence it appears Dell does you don't need it.
Sorry about that. yeah i saw at the end you need to pay for it. I was just doing the thing you told me and i searched the service tag and changed the OS to windows xp and wanted it to only show urgent. it only shows that I have 7 Urgent drivers. is that really it? should i change it from urgent to recommended? there is 20 drivers under recommended. but for recommded, there are alot of drivers that only apply for limited things. for example, theres one that is for a TV tuner which i dont have one installed.
I put in disc and loads everything and when it tries to start windows (hasnt even had the blue screen asking which partition to install to) i get this error
SESSION3_INITIALIZATION_FAILED
STOP:0x0000006F (0xC0000020,0x00000000,0x00000000,0x00000000)
I read that its hardware failure.
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