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  • March 7, 2005 at 12:30 pm #2177198

    Deleting Partions

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    by aquaticit · about 18 years, 2 months ago

    I’m attempting to blow away a Desktop HP.
    For some reason it will not let me delete the exsisting partion [c: NTFS 4110MB (1661MB free)and start from scratch.
    Can I force this deletion by other means?
    I want to start fresh with Windows 2000.

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    • March 7, 2005 at 12:48 pm #3342069

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      by jaqui · about 18 years, 2 months ago

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      you should be able to from the win2k install program.

      • March 7, 2005 at 1:06 pm #3342053

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        by aquaticit · about 18 years, 2 months ago

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        Thanks, but I tried that. It won’t acknowledge my “D” key stroke. The actual re-installion of Windows 2000 was successful, but I want to ensure a clean slate and so wish to delete this partion. Any other soutions?

    • March 7, 2005 at 1:16 pm #3342046

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      by exnn · about 18 years, 2 months ago

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      try to boot from a floppy with system (Win95 or 98 will work), then use fdisk to erase the partition and create a new one. Then boot from CD with the Windows 200 CD in and perform a clean installation.

    • March 7, 2005 at 1:18 pm #3342044

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      by willcomp · about 18 years, 2 months ago

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      Boot from a Win98 boot disk, run fdisk, and delete all partitions.

      Dalton

      • March 8, 2005 at 6:14 am #3331845

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        by aquaticit · about 18 years, 2 months ago

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        yup, thanks.

      • June 21, 2007 at 6:18 am #2595933

        Fdisk issues

        by daugherr · about 15 years, 11 months ago

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        Fdisk issues on laptop
        I’m trying to to format a laptop to install Windows XP over 2000, it won’t do it saying there are install files on that partition. I then decided to Fdisk to start over but when I try to boot to the floppy it comes up with this error, “Invalid Hibernation Partition?.run HDPREPEZ or AMI Save to File Utility” Does anyone know how to get around this problem so I can move on to the better things in life? Thanks in advance for any help anyone can offer.

    • March 7, 2005 at 4:32 pm #3341957

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      by dmiles · about 18 years, 2 months ago

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      Using a Win98 startup disk
      Insert in floppy drive,boot computer

      Choose option to runsetup without cd rom support

      At command prompt type fdisk

      Select option to delete non-dos partitions

      Follow the screen prompts perform all other partitions before deleting the dos partition

      Partiton and format

    • March 8, 2005 at 6:14 am #3331843

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      by aquaticit · about 18 years, 2 months ago

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