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virus or boot-sector protection
Name: Albert Leao Date: November 25, 2005 at 05:49:05 Pacific OS: xp pro CPU/Ram: fx
Comment:
hello, im gonna do a clean install of xp pro and i wanted to partition my hd into three parts. part 1 (c:) 10gigs for windows itself, part 2 (d:) 95 gigs for program files, part 3 (e:) 95 gigs for my documents. but when i attempted to use partition magic on my computer i would get error 58 Disable the virus or boot-sector protection. so i thought maybe if i try on another computer, so i brought and hooked up the drive as a slave on a sony vaio. i attempted to use partition magic again, same error, a friend of mine came along and said that if you delete the windows folder, it will work, so he deleted it. now im stuck because i dont even know how to access the bios on the sony vaio and i cant bring the hd back to my computer because windows was deleted. help please
Name: street1 Date: November 25, 2005 at 06:00:36 Pacific
Reply:
Sony Vaio is usually press F3 at startup.You can look at this site..http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/bios_manufacturer.htm
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Response Number 2
Name: Tony Seiler Date: November 25, 2005 at 06:41:50 Pacific
Reply:
Hi,
Why don't you do a clean install with the XP CD? Partition Magic would not be needed.
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Response Number 3
Name: brucezc Date: November 25, 2005 at 13:03:52 Pacific
Reply:
If you can boot from XP CD, don't need PQ, just follow the XP setup instruction and creat the partition. Otherwise, connect your HDD to other PC to create partition
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