Darren New wrote:
> Tom Austin wrote:
>> I know how to use it and get to it easier than thru the XP recovery 
>> console.
> 
> Diskpart runs for me from the XP command line. Oh, I see what you mean. 
> You had nothing at all on the machine. OK.
> 

yep - blank slate - was kinda nice.

>> I actually tried to get to it, but was prompted for an XP installation 
>> to recover before I got to a prompt that I could use.
> 
> Yeah, I can see where that would slow you down. :-) BartPE is a good 
> cure if you do that sort of thing regularly.
> 

I think I remember running across that a couple of years ago - Live 
Windows, but for some reason never pursued it.


>> I figured that at that point I would rather learn how to get Linux 
>> running on my machine because I plan on messing around with it later.
> 
> Yeah. And live CDs are certainly easier to find for Linux than Windows.
> 

but finding one that would boot on my machine.....

pendrivelinux is a pretty nifty site.

It's amazing what people are doing.
I wish I had that kind of time.....


> I just thought there might have been functionality missing or something 
> that I didn't know about in fdisk.
> 

probably not
DiskPart is a pretty powerful program.

I had to use it to set up hot-swap IDE on a Windows Server - along with 
a lot of other things.




Later... Tom

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