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There are two ways to partition a hard drive that I practice without using a third party software.

  • The first way is to partition the drive in the set up environment using a windows xp bootable disk. The exact direction are here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/313348
  • The second way is within the already existing xp environment, and those directions can be found here: http://www.d-silence.com/feature.php?id=246

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I have installed many an operating system, but I never heard of having or wanting to do that. As to your question, I don't believe that that is possible.

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Please, Replug the brain and try again later

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first go to bios,and select boot from CD ROM/DVD inset xp boot disc into CD ROM

and at statup press enter.....follow the rules

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You would insert the program's DVD into the drive and follow the onscreen prompts.

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