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  1. August 28th, 2005, 08:49 PM #11
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    Hi jinxy

    I am not sure if that will work................AFAIK you cannot even upgrade from XP Pro 32 bit to 64bit, it has to be a clean install. This is XP Home?

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  2. August 28th, 2005, 08:57 PM #12
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    Nihil,

    I may have had one to many (bank holiday) but I read the post to say he was attempting a dual boot.......................................I have had this sort of problem before. The second win install buggers the reg of first install and cuz it was installed first the second partition, for some inexplicable reason won't boot either.

    But anyhoo a clean install fixes all.
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  3. August 28th, 2005, 11:16 PM #13
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    dialupdaemon - if this was my own computer i would boot from my normal XP cd, delete both partitions and then format the entire hard drive and reinstall the version of xp that came with the box. Problem solved (hopefully)

    Like nihil says, the box is only a day old so there cant be that much stuff on there & if you want to learn, play or experiment with 64 bit O/S's use and different hard drive that you dont mind messing up!
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  4. August 31st, 2005, 05:06 AM #14
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    I thought about it some more and decided to just go with the reformat because I definitely don't want to have to deal with recurring issues that might have resulted. The PC is back up and running in great condition again. I haven't managed to reclaim the 50 GB of space that I set aside for the 64 bit partition though...
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  6. August 31st, 2005, 01:35 PM #15
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    Hi dialupdaemon ,

    I am glad to hear that things are getting back to normal

    About the "spare" 50Gb partition.

    1. Does the BIOS report the correct total drive size?
    2. Does XP Home "see" the partition?
    3. What drives/partitions (physical and logical) is your system showing and what letters have been assigned to them?
    4. What file system is it, or is it showing as "unformatted"?


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  7. August 31st, 2005, 02:14 PM #16
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    Did you delete the partitions before you formated or did you just format the original windows partition? If you just formated your normal installations partition, chances are the 64 bit OS may still be there!
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  8. August 31st, 2005, 07:50 PM #17
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    if you go into compmgmt.msc (start > run > commgmt.msc) do you see the partition there??? if you need any assistence look at this KB from Microsoft...
    http://support.microsoft.com/default...309000&sd=tech
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