It will work for anybody who want to do a truly clean installation/reinstallation of Windows XP. By deleting and recreating the partition and then format the HD you will have eliminated all traces of whatever problem you had prior to doing this. i_XpUser

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I have some done some testing on using FDISK to remove a Non Dos partition and have not been able to get it done. By all appearances it looks like it worked but after the process you can boot right back into XP, If there is a special way to do it please post it. I don't mean this to be sarcastic but would like to know. thanks. Frank

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Non-DOS partition indicates a partition that is not native to the M$ OS. For example this could be a Linux partition. I never have dealt with Linux or anything similar to it. i_XpUser

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Run Regedit. 2. Browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion 3. Look for a key named Fonts. -- If this key is missing, create a new one Right Click on CurrentVersion > New > Key. Rename the New Key to Fonts. 4. Go to Fonts in the Control Panel 5. Select File - Install New Fonts 6. Browse to C:\Windows\Fonts and double click on the Fonts folder 7. When the fonts display in the box above, click Select All then OK With symbols as the default font, it may be dificult to navigate the registy editor and run through these steps. If that is the case, try Solution #2 Solution #2 1 Copy ALL of the text below starting with "Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00" down to the end 2 paste the text into notepad and save it as fonts.reg 3 Double click on fonts.reg. 4 When it asks if you want to enter the information into the registry click Yes 6 Restart the computer -------- Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts] "Roman (All res)"="ROMAN.FON" "Script (All res)"="SCRIPT.FON" "Modern (All res)"="MODERN.FON" "Small Fonts (VGA res)"="SMALLE.FON" "Arial (TrueType)"="ARIAL.TTF" "Arial Bold (TrueType)"="ARIALBD.TTF" "Arial Bold Italic (TrueType)"="ARIALBI.TTF" "Arial Italic (TrueType)"="ARIALI.TTF" "Courier New (TrueType)"="COUR.TTF" "Courier New Bold (TrueType)"="COURBD.TTF" "Courier New Bold Italic (TrueType)"="COURBI.TTF" "Courier New Italic (TrueType)"="COURI.TTF" "Lucida Console (TrueType)"="LUCON.TTF" "Lucida Sans Unicode (TrueType)"="L_10646.TTF" "Times New Roman (TrueType)"="TIMES.TTF" "Times New Roman Bold (TrueType)"="TIMESBD.TTF" "Times New Roman Bold Italic (TrueType)"="TIMESBI.TTF" "Times New Roman Italic (TrueType)"="TIMESI.TTF" "WingDings (TrueType)"="WINGDING.TTF" "Symbol (TrueType)"="SYMBOL.TTF" "Symbol 8,10,12,14,18,24 (VGA res)"="SYMBOLE.FON" "Verdana (TrueType)"="verdana.TTF" "Verdana Bold (TrueType)"="verdanab.TTF" "Verdana Italic (TrueType)"="verdanai.TTF" "Verdana Bold Italic (TrueType)"="verdanaz.TTF" "Arial Black (TrueType)"="ariblk.TTF" "Comic Sans MS (TrueType)"="comic.TTF" "Comic Sans MS Bold (TrueType)"="comicbd.TTF" "Impact (TrueType)"="impact.TTF" "Georgia (TrueType)"="georgia.TTF" "Georgia Bold (TrueType)"="georgiab.TTF" "Georgia Bold Italic (TrueType)"="georgiaz.TTF" "Georgia Italic (TrueType)"="georgiai.TTF" "Franklin Gothic Medium (TrueType)"="Framd.TTF" "Franklin Gothic Medium Italic (TrueType)"="Framdit.TTF" "Palatino Linotype (TrueType)"="pala.TTF" "Palatino Linotype Bold (TrueType)"="palab.TTF" "Palatino Linotype Bold Italic (TrueType)"="palabi.TTF" "Palatino Linotype Italic (TrueType)"="palai.TTF" "Tahoma Bold (TrueType)"="tahomabd.TTF" "Trebuchet MS (TrueType)"="trebuc.TTF" "Trebuchet MS Bold (TrueType)"="trebucbd.TTF" "Trebuchet MS Bold Italic (TrueType)"="trebucbi.TTF" "Trebuchet MS Italic (TrueType)"="trebucit.TTF" "Webdings (TrueType)"="webdings.TTF" "Estrangelo Edessa (TrueType)"="estre.TTF" "Gautami (TrueType)"="gautami.TTF" "Latha (TrueType)"="latha.TTF" "Mangal (TrueType)"="mangal.TTF" "Mv Boli (TrueType)"="mvboli.TTF" "Raavi (TrueType)"="raavi.TTF" "Shruti (TrueType)"="shruti.TTF" "Tunga (TrueType)"="tunga.TTF" "Sylfaen (TrueType)"="sylfaen.TTF" "WST_Czec (All res)"="wst_czec.FON" "WST_Engl (All res)"="wst_engl.FON" "WST_Fren (All res)"="wst_fren.FON" "WST_Germ (All res)"="wst_germ.FON" "WST_Ital (All res)"="wst_ital.FON" "WST_Span (All res)"="wst_span.FON" "WST_Swed (All res)"="wst_swed.FON" "Courier 10,12,15 (VGA res)"="COURE.FON" "MS Sans Serif 8,10,12,14,18,24 (VGA res)"="SSERIFE.FON" "MS Serif 8,10,12,14,18,24 (VGA res)"="SERIFE.FON" "Tahoma (TrueType)"="TAHOMA.TTF" "Microsoft Sans Serif (TrueType)"="MICROSS.TTF" "Arial Narrow (TrueType)"="ARIALN.TTF" "Book Antiqua (TrueType)"="BKANT.TTF" "Bookman Old Style (TrueType)"="BOOKOS.TTF" "Century Gothic (TrueType)"="GOTHIC.TTF" "Garamond (TrueType)"="GARA.TTF" "Haettenschweiler (TrueType)"="HATTEN.TTF" "MS Outlook (TrueType)"="OUTLOOK.TTF" "Monotype Corsiva (TrueType)"="MTCORSVA.TTF" "Wingdings 2 (TrueType)"="WINGDNG2.TTF" "Wingdings 3 (TrueType)"="WINGDNG3.TTF" "Book Antiqua Bold (TrueType)"="ANTQUAB.TTF" "Book Antiqua Bold Italic (TrueType)"="ANTQUABI.TTF" "Book Antiqua Italic (TrueType)"="ANTQUAI.TTF" "Arial Narrow Bold (TrueType)"="ARIALNB.TTF" "Arial Narrow Bold Italic (TrueType)"="ARIALNBI.TTF" "Arial Narrow Italic (TrueType)"="ARIALNI.TTF" "Bookman Old Style Bold (TrueType)"="BOOKOSB.TTF" "Bookman Old Style Bold Italic (TrueType)"="BOOKOSBI.TTF" "Bookman Old Style Italic (TrueType)"="BOOKOSI.TTF" "Bookshelf Symbol 7 (TrueType)"="BSSYM7.TTF" "Garamond Bold (TrueType)"="GARABD.TTF" "Garamond Italic (TrueType)"="GARAIT.TTF" "Century Gothic Bold (TrueType)"="GOTHICB.TTF" "Century Gothic Bold Italic (TrueType)"="GOTHICBI.TTF" "Century Gothic Italic (TrueType)"="GOTHICI.TTF" "MS Reference Sans Serif (TrueType)"="REFSAN.TTF" "MS Reference Specialty (TrueType)"="REFSPCL.TTF"

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