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Complete formating HDD with WindowsNT

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by gorissen

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I have a HDD, which had installed NT-Server 4.0

Now i want to install NT-Workstation on this HDD, because the Server is not needed.

After making new Partition and formating with NT-Workstation-Setup, the Setup is able to find the "boot.ini" and other Datas.

How is it possible to make a new Format without a Possibility to have any old Datas on the HDD?

Great thanks for answers!

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by gigelul

Hi,
You tried in instalation wizard to delete partition, create other new partitions and in next screen you chose to format this new partition?
Is possible after first restart to receive a boot.ini with old references from previous instalation butthis don't means that you don't have a clean instalation. Edit boot.ini and delete uneeded lines.

by alpha-male

Have you tried just fdisking the drive and the master boot record (fdisk /mbr), then repartitioning and reformatting?

by gorissen

Hello!

Thanks for your help!!!

Its okay after "fdisk /mbr" and reboot.

Thank you all for help!

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