Your partitioning plans are ill conceived
What happened to D - P drive letters?

"Adam Skeaping" <adamskeaping@NOTCOLDmail.com> wrote in message
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> My son's XP is in a bad way, but he doesn't want to trash the installation
> completely until he has another alternative boot option which he can
> gradually set up the way he wants.
> There's plenty of spare space on his 120GB drive, so, keeping the existing
> boot partition on C:\, I repartitioned it as follows (in order of the
> partitions from left to right in Disk Manager).
> 1. NTFS, Active Primary 7MB with just boot.ini and NTLDR etc. (S:\)
> 2. NTFS, Primary 16 GB with just the tired old Windows & Program Files
> etc.
> (C:\)
> 3. FAT, Logical 2GB just for pagefile (P:\)
> 4. NTFS, Logical, 16 GB (currently empty but intended for the alternative
> XP
> boot)
> 5: NTFS, Logical, 86 GB for all his data (My Documents points to this)
>
> He's lost the original recovery CD, but still has C:\i386, so I ran
> WINNT32
> from there, but on selecting New Installation I do not get the option to
> choose a partition, and the installer tells me there's not enough space on
> S:\ (not surprising since it's only 7MB).
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/305873, was totally unhelpful as it
> doesn't
> tell me the reason the installer "sometimes" doesn't offer a partition
> choice, and it doesn't tell me how to manipulate boot.ini so that the
> installer will offer the choice.