Check BIOS to see the boot order and make sure the cd drive boots first than the harddrive. Also I'm not understanding you clearly are you saying you already install xp but on a 6gb partition and you want the rest of it merge together without reformating? You can use disk manager to create a partition like an extended logical partition but you would need a third party software like partition magic to merge them. However you can use the other space to store data also as long as it logical and not primary(else if not configure right xp will not see it).
Check BIOS to see the boot order and make sure the cd drive boots first than the harddrive. Also I'm not understanding you clearly are you saying you already install xp but on a 6gb partition and you want the rest of it merge together without reformating? You can use disk manager to create a partition like an extended logical partition but you would need a third party software like partition magic to merge them. However you can use the other space to store data also as long as it logical and not primary(else if not configure right xp will not see it).
Alright, this is what I think happened. When I first instaled windows, I set only 1 partition (meant to make it 60gb, but missed a zero and got 6gb). SO as of now when I enter My Computer, all that shows up is the single 6gb C: and nothing else, so what i need to do is eaither partition the rest, or uninstall windows completely and start from scratch
Ok I understand now, well the rest of the space is unallocated so using that link I gave you, you can partition the unallocated space into a logical partition using disk manager without the need to reformat.
Ok I understand now, well the rest of the space is unallocated so using that link I gave you, you can partition the unallocated space into a logical partition using disk manager without the need to reformat.