Does anyone know anything about this,because my friend has an ibm aptiva,it came with windows me installed on the system,hes got one 30 gig harddrive but when you go into my computer theres two different harddrives in there one is about 29.5 gigs and the second which is supposed to be the ibm preload is about 500 megs or something like that,like a second partition,anyway i tryed to install windows xp ,put the cd in restarted windows and got windows xp loading,but when you get up to the part where you can delete the partitions and reformat the harddrive,it wont let you it says acsess is denied when i try to delete the preload partition i cant even do a clean format with the first partition the 29 gig one,the only way i could install xp was to go back to windows and do an upgrade with fat32,can someone tell me how to delete that ibm preload so i can do a comlete reformat in the ntfs file system.Sorry this should be in the trouble shooting section i dont know how to move it.
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