Formating Wins 2000

Find or create a windows startup disk that has fdisk on it or if you have a windows setup disk which you will need to be able to see your cdrom when you are ready to install windows 98. Boot the computer from this disk and go to the dos prompt. Run fdisk and do a delete extended or dos partitions. the extended partitions, if you have them have to be deleted first befor the primary partition. If fdisk says there are no dos partitions you have a ntfs partition on this drive so you have to do a delete non dos partition instead. You will loose everything on the drive. Also make sure that your bootable 98 disk that you are using allows you to see the cdrom to install the new operating system.
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Sometimes you can be stuck if you have NTFS logical drives in extended partition. You cannot delete them with fdisk from Win9x bootable diskette. To get rid of those delete them from Win2000. If you already deleted your Win2000 you should boot from Win2000 CD or boot diskettes and select repair (not install). You should then select recovery console. Once you are in recovery console, type diskpart and you can then get rid of any NTFS logical drives in extended partition.

u can do it white partition magic (boot disk). It's easey to delete and to recreate a new one.

You can try to delete all the logical drive first. If you use NTFS for the logical you can follow the instruction before thios answers.
If you have then just prepair the win start up disk to boot to dos with cd rom support.
after that you can format the drive C: with format c:/s to copy the system file.
Then you can install you win98 from the cd rom.
You will be only have win98

Hope this help you

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