New Hard Drive

[Power Penguin]

How do you run FDisk from Windows XP? Will I need to make a boot floppy (don't ven know whether you can make a boot floppy with XP).

[Sephiroth]

When you get your new hard drive you should get a floppy disk with the tools on it to set it up to load the operating system on it. If you got it OEM then this floppy is avaible to download on that hard drives manufacturers web site.

[PorkSwordsman]

It depends on what flavour of xp u have - if u have upgraded then on boot up press F8 just before u see starting msdos then select start in previous version of dos , then run fdisk from the command line, this works also if u hae a dual win98/xp system just start it in win98 then shut down to dos and run fdisk, if u have a standalone xp system then u will have to either press f8 on boot up ,when u see the 1st menu which shows advanced startup features and other cr.ap select start as normal hit return then hit f8 directly after that- it will then allow u into the msdos boot menu screen where as before u can select start msdos only, or (pauses for breath) u can download a little free program called killwin from http://www.bk-soft.com and this will allow u to shut down into dos mode from xp like win 98 or (another breath) u can download bootmagic ver 7.0 from * - file size * KB and use this which is the best program for doing anything disk wise - runs rings around fdisk :cross

[Power Penguin]

Ty, I'll have to practice with F8 then. And thanks Seph, sounds the easiest option, I'll try that first. Just hope I've got a floppy somewhere. (sigh).