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by remjoe

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hi i'm joe
i upgraded to win98se from WinXPpro which was freezing up all the time.
i had a 20 gb hard drive to start, it was
partitioned into 4 drives C,D,E,F.
now win 98 only sees 15 gb and 3 partitions
C,D, and E. where is F? can i bring it back by reinstalling win XP??
please help thanks
joe

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by sinbadthecat

winXP was suppose to be the upgrade! if your going back to win98, format the drive then partition it to what ever sizes you like. then reinstall the win98 operating system on "C". if you want win XP back on put the disc in the cd rom and restart thecomputer and let it install it and format it from there.

by thechas

If you did format F as ntsf, installing XP will allow you to access the data.

There are a couple of ways to recover the drive for use in 98.
If the data on the drive is not needed, or already backed up, boot with a 98 boot disk, and use fdisk todelete the logical drive.
Then create a new logical drive.

If you need the data on the drive:
Install XP, copy the files over to one of the fat drives.
Follow the procedure above to recover the partition.

There are also utilities that are suppossed to be able to convert a ntsf drive to a fat 32.
I have not tried them, so I cannot attest to their effectiveness.

Here are 2 links for further information;

http://mirror.webnix.com/LDP/HOWTO/Filesystems-HOWTO.html#toc5

www.webtechgeek.com

Good Luck

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