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Ok, so i'm in a big need of help.
I've been trying to reinstall windows on a PC and have made a major balls up of it.
The windows disk i have will only install onto a fat32 drive because it boots from DOS, so i had to do some juggling of partitions and ended up with a large NTFS partition empty and a fat 32 with windows on. So i converted fat32 to NTFS, and combined it with the other NTFS (partition magic from powerquest) but i resulted in the whole drive (just one partition now) being labelled F
So i thought to neaten things up again i would rename it C
I did so but now i cannot boot into windows, the programme warned me of this but i figured it was being over cautious.
So basically i have one NTFS partition with windows xp installed but i cannot access it becasue DOS doesn't supprt NTFS drives.
I need a way to either: Reformat it to FAT32 so i can reinstall windows
OR a way of changing the drive letter back to F: which i reckon should allow it to boot.
All help is welcomed and i promise NEVER to play with PC's again if you can help me get this fixed (whats worse is i'm having to lend my iBook to the person whose computer I broke)
I've been trying to reinstall windows on a PC and have made a major balls up of it.
The windows disk i have will only install onto a fat32 drive because it boots from DOS, so i had to do some juggling of partitions and ended up with a large NTFS partition empty and a fat 32 with windows on. So i converted fat32 to NTFS, and combined it with the other NTFS (partition magic from powerquest) but i resulted in the whole drive (just one partition now) being labelled F
So i thought to neaten things up again i would rename it C
I did so but now i cannot boot into windows, the programme warned me of this but i figured it was being over cautious.
So basically i have one NTFS partition with windows xp installed but i cannot access it becasue DOS doesn't supprt NTFS drives.
I need a way to either: Reformat it to FAT32 so i can reinstall windows
OR a way of changing the drive letter back to F: which i reckon should allow it to boot.
All help is welcomed and i promise NEVER to play with PC's again if you can help me get this fixed (whats worse is i'm having to lend my iBook to the person whose computer I broke)