Corrupt installation.... Please Help

Posted: 11-02-2006, 11:46 AM

Asa Carter

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I have a corrupt installation and cannot fix it by installing a new clean
installation.

I have one hard disk with about 100GB free. I have about 100GB of data that
I want to keep so I cannot format the partition. I have about 3GB in
unallocated space.

I have tried Paragon Partition Manager and Partition Magic 8.1 but neither
work in Vista.

How can I create a new partition by reducing the space on my C: drive?
or ...
Create a new bootable drive from the unallocated space so I can install XP
on that?

I'm not sure why vista is corrupt but windows installer is all messed up
after installing RC2. I went back to RC1 but the problem persists in that now
too.

Responses to "Corrupt installation.... Please Help"

PaulB

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RE: Corrupt installation.... Please Help

Posted: 11-02-2006, 02:06 PM

Hi,
Most partition software is bootable, so run it from the CD then it doesn't
matter about VISTA.
--
Paul

"Asa Carter" wrote:

> I have a corrupt installation and cannot fix it by installing a new clean
> installation.
>
> I have one hard disk with about 100GB free. I have about 100GB of data that
> I want to keep so I cannot format the partition. I have about 3GB in
> unallocated space.
>
> I have tried Paragon Partition Manager and Partition Magic 8.1 but neither
> work in Vista.
>
> How can I create a new partition by reducing the space on my C: drive?
> or ...
> Create a new bootable drive from the unallocated space so I can install XP
> on that?
>
> I'm not sure why vista is corrupt but windows installer is all messed up
> after installing RC2. I went back to RC1 but the problem persists in that now
> too.

Chad Harris

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Re: Corrupt installation.... Please Help

Posted: 11-02-2006, 04:59 PM

Yep as Paul says and it can speed up your partitioning--do a search on
Partition Magic on this group.

CH

"PaulB" <PaulB@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:030CD21C-9E6A-4272-9928-5A7D314FE906@microsoft.com...

> Hi,
> Most partition software is bootable, so run it from the CD then it doesn't
> matter about VISTA.
> --
> Paul
>
>
> "Asa Carter" wrote:
>
>> I have a corrupt installation and cannot fix it by installing a new clean
>> installation.
>>
>> I have one hard disk with about 100GB free. I have about 100GB of data
>> that
>> I want to keep so I cannot format the partition. I have about 3GB in
>> unallocated space.
>>
>> I have tried Paragon Partition Manager and Partition Magic 8.1 but
>> neither
>> work in Vista.
>>
>> How can I create a new partition by reducing the space on my C: drive?
>> or ...
>> Create a new bootable drive from the unallocated space so I can install
>> XP
>> on that?
>>
>> I'm not sure why vista is corrupt but windows installer is all messed up
>> after installing RC2. I went back to RC1 but the problem persists in that
>> now
>> too.

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