[Gllug] Recovering disk space
Chris Bell
chrisbell at overview.demon.co.uk
Sun Dec 10 21:53:35 UTC 2006
On Sun 10 Dec, John G Walker wrote:
>
> But I'd still like to know if reinstalling XP will sort out my problem
> by itself. I'm going to reinstall it, since this is going to be my
> backup Windows PC (for those occasions when I absolutely *have* to use
> it), so, if my disk space returns as a side-effect then this minimises
> my effort. But I was under the impression that XP would just accept
> what it found in the way of partitions, and the documentation doesn't
> tell me flip about it either way,
>
>
I do not know about XP, but the standard cure-all for M$ used to be
fdisk \mbr (or it could be fdisk /mbr) to rebuild the standard M$ Master
Boot Record.
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Chris Bell
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