I had serious problems with my laptop and an IT guy at work fixed it. To do
so he partitioned the drive and re-installed Windows ME. I bought an XP Home
upgrade for it and when I tried to install it, the message said the drive was
too small. I looked on the partitioned D drive and there is tons of space.
Here's the kicker....
the IT guy is gone so I can't ask him how to get XP installed. Truly, you
get what you pay for. Anyway, is it likely a re-partitioning program would
allow me to
fix this problem?? Thanks for your thoughts!

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"MsJongg in Seattle" wrote:

| I had serious problems with my laptop and an IT guy at work fixed it. To do
| so he partitioned the drive and re-installed Windows ME. I bought an XP Home
| upgrade for it and when I tried to install it, the message said the drive was
| too small. I looked on the partitioned D drive and there is tons of space.
| Here's the kicker....
| the IT guy is gone so I can't ask him how to get XP installed. Truly, you
| get what you pay for. Anyway, is it likely a re-partitioning program would
| allow me to
| fix this problem?? Thanks for your thoughts!

If it is too small repartition the partitions,in ME one would use FDisk if ME
is installed,otherwise,you could perform a clean installation of xp and
delete
D: all together,install xp cd,boot to cd,recovery,press 1 for C:,press enter
key for password,then typeiskPart In DiskPart delete all partitions,then
create
one,then press Esc key,then type:EXIT Reboot to xp cd,select,install xp,new
copy,let xp format and install auto.

"MsJongg in Seattle" wrote:

> I had serious problems with my laptop and an IT guy at work fixed it. To do
> so he partitioned the drive and re-installed Windows ME. I bought an XP Home
> upgrade for it and when I tried to install it, the message said the drive was
> too small. I looked on the partitioned D drive and there is tons of space.
> Here's the kicker....
> the IT guy is gone so I can't ask him how to get XP installed. Truly, you
> get what you pay for. Anyway, is it likely a re-partitioning program would
> allow me to
> fix this problem?? Thanks for your thoughts!

Partition magic can certainly extend the C partition and shrink D. I take it
you have bought the upgrade version of XP.
Upgrades are never as clean as fresh installs. For a start it better to have
a drive formatted NTFS rather than converted afterwards.
All sorts of other rubbish from ME will be left behind.
Some microsoft upgrade installs will let you do a fresh install as long as
you have the old install CD available for checking. I know the Win98 upgrade
allowed this but I do not know for XP.

Good luck
Paul


"MsJongg in Seattle" <MsJongg in Seattle@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:2572FD33-3A04-473E-8C60-170F34462128@microsoft.com...
>I had serious problems with my laptop and an IT guy at work fixed it. To do
> so he partitioned the drive and re-installed Windows ME. I bought an XP
> Home
> upgrade for it and when I tried to install it, the message said the drive
> was
> too small. I looked on the partitioned D drive and there is tons of space.
> Here's the kicker....
> the IT guy is gone so I can't ask him how to get XP installed. Truly, you
> get what you pay for. Anyway, is it likely a re-partitioning program would
> allow me to
> fix this problem?? Thanks for your thoughts!

But the Upgrade kits will allow you to do a fresh install of XP. You just
require a qualifying older Windows install CD. Original Windows 98, 98SE
and ME install CDs will be accepted for the XP Home upgrade. Windows 2000
Professional "may" only be accepted as part of the Windows XP Professional
upgrade.


"Paul Cahill" <xyzpaul.xyzcahill@dsl.pipex.com> wrote in message
news:%23kvVdm80FHA.2064@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Partition magic can certainly extend the C partition and shrink D. I take
> it you have bought the upgrade version of XP.
> Upgrades are never as clean as fresh installs. For a start it better to
> have a drive formatted NTFS rather than converted afterwards.
> All sorts of other rubbish from ME will be left behind.
> Some microsoft upgrade installs will let you do a fresh install as long as
> you have the old install CD available for checking. I know the Win98
> upgrade allowed this but I do not know for XP.
>
> Good luck
> Paul
>
>
> "MsJongg in Seattle" <MsJongg in Seattle@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
> in message news:2572FD33-3A04-473E-8C60-170F34462128@microsoft.com...
>>I had serious problems with my laptop and an IT guy at work fixed it. To
>>do
>> so he partitioned the drive and re-installed Windows ME. I bought an XP
>> Home
>> upgrade for it and when I tried to install it, the message said the drive
>> was
>> too small. I looked on the partitioned D drive and there is tons of
>> space.
>> Here's the kicker....
>> the IT guy is gone so I can't ask him how to get XP installed. Truly, you
>> get what you pay for. Anyway, is it likely a re-partitioning program
>> would
>> allow me to
>> fix this problem?? Thanks for your thoughts!
>
>

http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/bootitng.html

Has worked fine for me for years.






"MsJongg in Seattle" <MsJongg in Seattle@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:2572FD33-3A04-473E-8C60-170F34462128@microsoft.com...
>I had serious problems with my laptop and an IT guy at work fixed it. To do
> so he partitioned the drive and re-installed Windows ME. I bought an XP Home
> upgrade for it and when I tried to install it, the message said the drive was
> too small. I looked on the partitioned D drive and there is tons of space.
> Here's the kicker....
> the IT guy is gone so I can't ask him how to get XP installed. Truly, you
> get what you pay for. Anyway, is it likely a re-partitioning program would
> allow me to
> fix this problem?? Thanks for your thoughts!