Windows XP clean install

**MorseLady** · July 4th, 2007, 05:46 PM

Mayet thanks for your kind words

and I am getting there but slowly.

Noo that is very kind of you. I bumped into an old MCP classmate today whilst shopping and he gave me one or two ideas. I will have one more try and if it does not work I will contact you and thanks

CCT no comment

Angie

**MorseLady** · July 4th, 2007, 06:42 PM

I used my W98 bootdisk and FDISK to delete the primary partition and its assortment of corrupt installs thereby forcing the XP Pro setup to allow me to choose and format the partition. FDISK renamed my data partition C and it's allgone pearshped because I now have two copies of Windows on Drive C and my data and the drive is now logical not primary. Noo Iamnot sure if I couldfollow instructions on the phone as I am hard of hearing and have a phobia about the phone because that's how Ilearned of my husband's demise.

Sorry this keyboardhas a dodgy spacebar. I am using another computer and a wirteless broadband router.

Iam taking the computer to the shoplater,. I was really relaxed now Iam stressed again, I willjustmake things worseand theremust be a problem.

Angie

**MorseLady** · July 4th, 2007, 10:47 PM

I have been up all night but I tried onemore thing and it worked. It seemed to be my data partiton was confusing the OEM setupdisk so I installed Partition Magic and merged the partitions and set it toprimary and active and then booted tomy setupdisk and it workedproperlyand I wasableto format the drive and now have one huge partition of nearly 200GB and a perfect instalof Windows. I can create a data partition later and of coursemy data had been backed upto DVD anyway.

Must get a new keyboard forthis opther computer Iam using inwhat is nowmy radio shack.

Angie

**Mayet** · July 5th, 2007, 12:20 AM

do you use echolink at all morselady?

I wondered if you are an amateur. We have an echolink node at home.

**MorseLady** · July 5th, 2007, 03:15 AM

Hello Mayet,

Yes I am a radio amateur G0HGA - are you a VK? I am CW only because I like it and because my hearing prevents me using fone.

I do not use Echolink but lots of friends are trying to persuade me. I am not very active on the bands at the moment and only have a 60ft wire at 7ft!

See my ham radio website http://www.qsl.net/g0hga/

Please feel free to PM or email me and that goes for anyone on here who is a radio amateur.

33/72/73/161 as appropriate

Angie G0HGA High Speed CW Op

**NooNoo** · July 5th, 2007, 03:22 AM

Brilliant Angie - perserverence always pays off with you! I understand about the phone, perhaps instant messaging would have been a better proposal... space bar problems or no!

Keyboards of the cheap and cheerful variety can be got for a fiver if you don't go to pc world....

**MorseLady** · July 5th, 2007, 08:18 AM

Thanks Noo. I have found an old white keyboard in the cupboard and it is good so I am able to type again. Will pick up a black one from Argos or Currys when I go out later to choose a cooker, old cooker tripping power circuit and only one hotplate working so got to buy a new one

Not got all the drivers back on my main computer yet as had to have a lie down to make up for lost sleep and despite being tired washing my car this morning, I hate seeing dust and sap on it. Meanwhile my cat is asleep on the settee! He's been busy all night too, poor mice! Like most cats he is not easy to get in at night.

I am using my other computer to access the Internet and in no hurry to finish the job on the main one now I know I have a decent instal of Windows on it I can relax and take my time.

I used to use a lot of instant messaging with Yahoo Messenger mostly with members of my own Yahoo Groups but prefer to post to forums or use email.

I don't know what I would do without my friends on the web and that includes the Windrivers forums gang. I think just being able to come on here and talk about a problem helps me resolve it. I may have been a bit unconventional and took a chance and could have lost my MBR but it worked. It involved using my W98 boot disk to get FDISK and then when that did not solve the problem completely I used PM8 to merge my partitions so the setup disc could only go one way. My data and photos are of course backed up on DVDs all ten of them! Be fun putting that lot back once I have all my drivers on and can safely create a new data partition.

Angie

**Mayet** · July 5th, 2007, 09:27 AM

The old win98 bootdisk has saved me on many an occasion with the fdisk

I'm learning for my exam at the moment moselady .. my husband is VK4TGH ......he wants me to go for my F call, limited bandwidth but no other restriction but I want my full call. The full call doesn't involve the ten words of morse anymore so it is easier but I want to learn morse anyway.

Hubbies to sick now to teach me so I am looking for some dvd's or something to learn off.

I have radios coming out of my ears. In the bedroom alone there is four handhelds set up permanent on various bands ..The radio users around here are mostly rural farmers so at 4am most mornings I get woken up by them discussing the weather.....sheesh no wonder my head is full of noise all the time. I have two lounge chairs in my bedroom retreat and one of them is full of cable and antennas. it gets maddening sometimes but mostly its great, I love hearing from people all over the world, I get a kick out of it when say a man from scotland opens our node and starts chatting away in his thick accent..

**MorseLady** · July 5th, 2007, 02:04 PM

Good Luck with the exam Mayet. I have not worked VK for many years and not worked many anyway. Sorry to hear that your OM is too sick to teach you. I have a couple of VKs on one of my Yahoo groups, will ask for you and also you could contact your national society as they may be able to help. Hey I am really glad you want to learn morse and I am a member of many morse clubs and I would recommend you join FISTS once you have your call. Also in the UK you do not have to do the morse but many choose to. I can read 40wpm on a good day!

I am back on my main computer with a good install of XP Pro. Just set up the Internet and installed video and sound drivers got lots more work to do yet.

Just a thought Noo, looking at my MCP results my worst score for the XP Pro one was installing and configuring Windows so I obviously need to learn more.

Angie