MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - I have a partition problem again......

When I set up my theatre rig a few years ago, I made a partition for the possibility of 7. Unfortunately, I was only able to make it 20gb. Now updates aren't getting installed because it's running into that limit.

I decided I'd delete the old XP parition, and extend the 7 partition into it, but Disk Management wouldn't let me delete or format the XP partition. I couldn't even delete files from it, because 7 won't let me. Of course I'm the admin. Partition protection for the XP partition was off.

Note - partition letters: 7 was C, XP was D, data was E.

So I thought I'd use my tinyXP disc to boot into XP live, format the XP partition, and I'd be fine. Hah hah hah hah....wait for it......NTLDR. Fuuuck.

Booted from my 7 install thumb drive. (I tried this first, but it wasn't booting....because my laptop doesn't recognize the thumb drive as a USB-FDD, but instead USB-HDD, and the latter was excluded from the boot order....) It did the 'found startup errors' and fixed them, but of course no joy on reboot. Booting again from the thumb drive, it doesn't say there are startup errors, but clicking next to get to repair options it says 'this version of system recovery options is not compatible with the versions of windows here....'

Scifi frauds. SF illuminates.
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