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    Acer Aspire 5500..Couldnt load Win XP plz help URGENT !!

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by esumitkumar, Nov 21, 2008.

  1. esumitkumar

    esumitkumar Newbie

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    Hi

    My 2 yrs old Acer 5500 60 GB HDD crashed ...I replaced it with another new 80 GB HDD...now when I inserted win98 boot disk and typed fdisk its showing only two partions one 2047 MB and another some 8GB . I deleted the partitions and again created but C: partition isnt exceeding 2047 MB and rest 8GB :confused:

    Anyways I inserted my Acer XP Rescue disks and installed windows ...After booting it says Invalid Partion Table :confused: :confused:

    Now my question is that how do I make Windows recognize the right Hard disk size ie 80 GB :( and run it successfully

    PS: I already installed Ubuntu 8.10 Linux ...working fine ..It recognizes 74GB Hard disk..
     
    esumitkumar, Nov 21, 2008
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  2. Andy

    Andy Notebook Prophet

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    Use GParted to make a single 74GiB (80GB) partition and install XP on it.

    You don't have a XP install disc ? If you can get one, you can use the key in the COA to do a clean/fresh install.
     
    Andy, Nov 21, 2008
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    esumitkumar Newbie

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    shud i make partition as NTFS or what ? also linux is installed on whole HDD how it will allow to make whole HDD NTFS ?
     
    esumitkumar, Nov 24, 2008
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    ^^bump !! any answers
     
    esumitkumar, Dec 3, 2008
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    Andy Notebook Prophet

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    Do you know if your Rescue disks will run fine on a NTFS partition ?
    Get rid of linux.
    You can change to whatever filesystem you want in GParted.
     
    Andy, Dec 3, 2008
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    I think so they will run but the prob is that fdisk still says there are only two partitions 2 GB and 8 GB ??????
     
    esumitkumar, Dec 5, 2008
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    I've never used recovery discs to reinstall, so is it necessary to go through fdisk ?

    Does, this happen when the filesystem is NTFS or FAT32 ?

    You can install on the 8GB partition, and later on extend partitions using GParted,
     
    Andy, Dec 5, 2008
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