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Hard Drive Problems from WinNT to Win98

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by demservices

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A client of mine has recently installed Win NT on his system... due to the hardware performance...he reinstall Win98. However, he is only showing 1 partition. He has 2 hard drive each with more than 40g space cap.

In WIn NT, all of his partition was in Fat.. for the expection of one partition..which was NTFS.. However before switching over to Win98.. he moved his files from the NTFS partition to a FAT partition.. then removing the NTFS part. Why is Win98 not showing the rest of the Partition he had on NT...Doesn't Win 98 read all FAT drives?

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by xpertdragon

Yes, Windows 98 will read just about any FAT type partition, and even FAT32 type partition. The only time you would have to worry is with Windows95 which doesn't read any FAT32 partitions I believe.

The ultimate question here I guess is, What didyour client do with that 1 particular partition that had NTFS? Did he Convert it? Wipe it? Or just move files from it, so they could be read on another partition? WIndows 98 Will definately not Read a NTFS partition, even if it is blank and all files have been moved from it. A utility such as partition magic would be able to convert that partition to a readable partition for Windows 98, A FAT partition if you wish.

Windows 98 is obviously not seeing that particular partition because it is not viewable/compatible within Win98. I think your client just needs to diagnose that partition in question right now, especially if it was the formerly NTFS used partition.

Good Luck!

Paul M. Chavez

by mphoffar

From you said, he removed the NTFS partition, but I don't see anything saying how he recreated it. First thing I would try would be to sys your C drive. This should remove any remnents NT install pertaining to booting.

After that, I'd say just run fdisk to see what partitions are there. The NTFS will be showing up as non-dos. If they're there, you can continue and use fdisk to remove and recrete the partition or use something like partition magic to convert it or repair the disk so it's seen correctly.

Good luck to you

Mark

by mdelyea

Just removing the NTSF partiton does not automatically make the space available to 98. You need to create an extended partition in that space (with fdisk) and then create a logical drive in that new partition. Alternatively, you can use something like PQMagic to resize the FAT32 partition to use the entire drive. Also, regarding win95; win95a will not read FAT32 but win95b (aka win95 OSR2) will.

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