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by kaholmes

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I am lookimg for advice on formatting a Sony Vaio notebook P2 400. I had removed Sony's software and installed WindowsNT Workstation and a dual boot with Windows98. I now want to re-install Sony's software but am having difficulties in formatting the drive.

(I have selected "No" to large drive support originally, and now have selected "Yes") but once I format the drive i.e., removing all logical drives then selecting, remove Extended Dos partition - I get a message stating: you must removeall logical drives in the Extended Dos partition.... I have removed all logical drives i.e., D;E;F;...within the Extended Dos partition and have even re-named the drives and re-formatted and then back to remove the logical drives but still come back to the original message of: there are still logical drives in the extended dos and they must be removed before continuing....

The Extended Dos partition is 4555 Mgbs and the Primary Dos is only 955 Mgbs. The Primary Dos is too small to re-install the Sony software from its original Recovery CD.

Any suggestions will really help?

I have formatted many drives in the past few months, but am stuck on the Sony situation.

I had installed Partition Magic orginally and don't have a copy with me at this time. Maybe this is where the problem may lay?

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by frank.duffey

From the Setup Disk Run Setup.
When you get to the Disk options remove the partitions.
Turn off the Notebook and boot from the Win 98 CD Rom , and run setup from there.
The Fdisk utility will not see a NT Partition.
Therefore you must run the WinNT Setup to remove the Partition.

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