booting partitions

[Ronco Rox]

how can i make the partition itself and how can i transfer the booting properties to that drive? i'm new to this and i just formatted my drive, so bare with me

 

[Raffaz]

A bit vague mate. Are you doing a clean install, what OS?

 

[Ronco Rox]

oh sorry, yes its a clean install. i just finished formatting now and i'm running xp.

 

[Celegorm]

If you havn't installed anything yet, just re-do the install and you can partition the drive durring the install process (right before formatting) and make everything the size you want.

of you can get a free Copy of G-Parted to partition it, but i don't know if that'll work to transer over and boot off of.

 

[Raffaz]

Just boot from your XP CD and that will take care of it. You can create, delete, format partitions from the CD, are you doing a dual boot or single boot?

 

[Ronco Rox]

i'm doing a single boot and i don't have an xp disk, its a prebuilt computer so it comes only comes with a recovery cd.

i heard there were programs that partition it automatically, but is the boot files just the WINDOWS folder in my c: drive?

 

[Raffaz]

The boot files will be installed when you use the recovery disc. If your just doing 1 partition then its pretty straightforward.